Lindsey Buckingham's complaint against FM - Filed 10/9/18 in Los Angeles - document

[rhiannondontgo]

Originally Posted by jwd

Band decisions are made by unanimous vote, not majority rules. Lindsey didn't vote himself out of FM. He's still a member, and rightfully so. So unless he did something so egregiously wrong, he's in.

My question about this point is: is there any actual written contract outlining this rule or was this just an informal way that they had been conducting business to try to please as many members as possible and keep fighting to a minimum? It said at one point in the lawsuit that there “has never been an overarching band agreement detailing the various member’s rights and obligations”. So unless i’m misunderstanding this line and it doesn’t apply to the “unanimous partners” aspect, it seems like this way of doing business wasn’t any written contractual obligation. Seems to just be a casual way they chose to handle disagreements together. Like a family etching out house rules to hang on their refrigerator just to make home life more peaceful.
Also, this band has a long history of majority-rules voting. As we were discussing earlier, there’s been lots of times that a certain member was against something that happened anyway (like Stevie being against naming the album Tusk for example). So it doesn’t sound like this rule Lindsey speaks of has always been enforced. And it certainly doesn’t sound like it was a legal contractual agreement.
(I could be wrong here. I’m actually not trying to be argumentative here, i’m genuinely asking if anyone knows if this point was an actual written agreement.)