Justly Earned Victory overide itself?

L5R CCG Rules board, 22 October 2007

A topic from AEG's L5R CCG Rules forum, copied for Oracle of the Void from a copy of the forum saved in October 2015, so pages it didn't save are missing. Players' names are left out; the rules officials are named. Rulings are as they stood on these dates; later rulings, the rulebooks and the Rules Archive may differ.

A player, 22 October 2007

Say Mr.Crab Bushi receives a Force bonus of 2 in battle from an action card. His opponent then uses Justly Earned Victory to negate the bonus. The Crab player then uses his own Justly Earned VIctory to negate the force reduction caused by the first JEV's negation.

Is this legal?

Chris Fuchs (rules official), 22 October 2007

When a bonus, penalty, maximum, or minimum ends or is negated, the resulting stat change is not considered a penalty or bonus.

Not legal.