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RE: [legalxml-courtfiling] JXDDS Person Object

From: Rolly Chambers
To: [email protected]
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 10:31:00 -0000

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Subject: RE: [legalxml-courtfiling] JXDDS Person Object

From: "Chambers, Rolly" <[email protected]>
To: Court Filing List <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 10:28:33 -0400

The diagram indicates that the "subclasses" of the "person" element
would be "citizen," "official," and "subject." These subclassifications
are not intuitive or particularly meaningful to me as an attorney. For
instance, it is unclear to me what the distinction would be between a
"subject" and a "citizen" in a court document.
 
From my perspective, a more intuitive and meaningful set of subclasses
of the "person" element at least for purposes of court documents would
be "witness," "attorney," "judicial official" or "judicial officer" (for
judges, justices, magistrates, possibly court clerks, etc.),
"enforcement officer" or "enforcement official" (for law enforcement
officers), and "administrative official" or "administrative officer"
(for administrative hearing officers, administrative law judges, board
members, etc.). Members of these subclasses are invariably individual
"persons" in the context of court documents.
 
I recognize that a "party" (as well as a "victim") in the context of a
court document can be either a "person" or an "organization." Thus,
where the subclasses of "person" are limited to those whose members are
invariably individuals, "person" would not include "party" or "victim"
as subclasses. 
 
Rolly Chambers