The Report On Lengthy Litigation
With no new cases accepted in the past week, the Arbitration Committee made some progress in terms of housekeeping to close a few matters, and also issued temporary injunctions in a couple of its current cases.
One of the injunctions came in the case against Irate, which had been accepted last week but not yet formally opened. Complaints about Irate's behavior had been ongoing for several weeks, leading to a request for comment and finally the request for arbitration. According to the statement of the complaint in the request for comment, Irate has a habit of "making vicious and highly insulting personal attacks" against a number of users with little or no provocation.
After the arbitration request was accepted, the situation escalated last Wednesday when Irate began alleging vandalising, through an IP address, categories related to Liverpool. On Thursday, he created his own requests for comment against several users, leading to a block, a flurry of discussion on the mailing list, and renewed activity on the arbitration case. Within minutes, the arbitrators passed a temporary injunction banning Irate from editing Wikipedia outside of his user and user talk pages, along with the arbitration pages related to his case. He was then unblocked in order to present his case.
Also, last Thursday the Arbitration Committee passed a temporary injunction prohibiting Netoholic from reverting pages in the Wikipedia namespace, requiring that he discuss matters on talk pages instead.