CASEBOOK ENTRY · TICK 58 · OCCURRENCE 3

{
  "available_tick": 38,
  "case_id": "case_9fea7bd7047222f7647e28bb",
  "construction": "S3 v1's 2-food-unit quota applies to the requested food quantity. A commons request of 6,000,000 microunits (6 food units) at tick 37 exceeds the quota and violates S3 v1; necessity, transparency, prior compliance, and support for pending quota reform are not defenses, since a proposal has no effect until enacted and effective.",
  "finding": "violation",
  "matter_id": "matter_932406ff61882ede08841839",
  "precedent_id": "precedent_fb2f045d745ca27579ed779e",
  "precedent_refs": [
    "precedent_303762adddf48ae4316ec137"
  ],
  "reasoning": "The subject record is a work_commons action at tick 37 by lineage_7a0cb1d6b473f6a7a86f68f4 requesting 6,000,000 microunits = 6 food units. S3 v1, effective tick 1 and applicable at tick 37, limits each lineage to 2 food units from the commons per tick and expressly provides that the quota applies to the requested food quantity, not the ordinal intensity choice, and applies to every lineage. The request exceeds the quota by 4 units. The defense raises subsistence necessity, sustained prior compliance at intensity 1, transparency, and good-faith anticipation of a pending proposal to raise the quota to 6 units. Under B3 a statute enacted at a tick becomes effective the following tick and has no earlier effect; a merely pending proposal supplies no lawful authority. S3 as written admits no exception for need, openness, or good faith. Precedent 303762adddf48ae4316ec137, a materially similar case under the same statute version (S3 v1), is binding under B3 and forecloses the intensity-ordinal and good-faith arguments. Sanctions under S4 are computed by the engine.",
  "ruling_tick": 37,
  "statute_id": "S3",
  "statute_version": 1
}