The peanut gallery has virtually ignored the decision of the
Springfield Illinois federal court but I can assure you that the
decision is of great significance. Simply stated, THE END IS NEAR.
Unless they can pull a rabbit out of the hat, they could be off the
board and swept into chess history in a week or two.

This case arose when the USCF filed a proceeding in Sangamon County
State Court seeking to remove Truong and Polgar from the board on the
grounds of fraud and dishonesty. On their last day to file an answer,
counsel for Truong and Polgar removed the case to federal court. Then
counsel stated that they would be moving to transfer the case to
federal court in Lubbock, Texas and consolidate it with the case
Polgar vs. USCF pending there. Had they succeeded in doing that, the
case could have been tied up in litigation for months or even years.

By sending the case back to federal court, the door has been opened
for counsel to begin summary proceedings to remove Polgar and Truong
from the board.

In theory this could be dome in a matter or days or even hours,
depending on how aggressive the USCF's lawyer is.

Here are some questions I have been wondering about.

1. Can the Trollgars delay the effectiveness of this decision by
appealing?

2. Can our Springfield Illinois lawyer now get a quick hearing and get
the Trollgars expelled from the board before the elections next month.

3. Will the case back in state court get bogged down in discovery.

4. Will the insurance company who is presumably paying Polgar's lawyer
be willing to continue to foot the bill to help Polgar retain her
voluntary position where there is no money involved?

I find it possible, perhaps even likely that the attorney representing
Polgar and Truong will drop their case. I do not know if their
attorney was hired by them or assigned by the insurance company. If
assigned by the insurance company they might decide that they have no
obligation to defend Polgar and Truong where there is no money
involved. Also, I doubt that they will want to use the delaying
tactics that are being used in ther San Francisco and Texas cases to
drag out the litigation for as long as possible, unless they are being
paid a lot of money to do that.

In short, the case could be over soon with Polgar and Truong expelled
permanently from the board and the only issue remaining being who owes
money to whom. Their attorneys are probably advising them right now to
resign from the board rather than be expelled.

Sam Sloan