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Show i Ordar ; Univorulty of Utah Salt Loko City, Utah Uu V 8M12 . VOLUME Atty. Gen. Meets With Special Master On SAIT LAKE CITY, IS, NUMBER 181 Great Salt Lake Attorney General Vernon B. Romney and members of his staff met with Special Master J. Cullen Ganey and attorneys for the Solicitor Generals Office to discuss the Great Salt Lake case now pending in the United States Supreme Court. After the meeting, Romney UTAH v. CLEMENTS said the agenda included efforts of Burglary conviction aii'inncd. the parties to agree upon the lanStatu counsel: guage of the decree to be entered N. Beasley Lauren by the Supreme Court as to the Defendant counsel: navigability phase of the case which John R. Andersen (Appointed) was argued before the Court on 020 Boston Building April 26th this year, and an effort See details page 4 . to establish ground rules for trial of the second phase of the case relating to exposed lands surrounding the lake. The case has taken on great significance because of the recent estimates of the value of the minerals in solution in the lake and industrial development which has gotten under way along the shore line. U.S. Court Finds Against HUD In Housing Case - CHICAGO (UPI) The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has found the U.S. Department of Housing and Praises Reagans Urban Development liable for racially discriminatory practices in Chief Justice SAN DIEGO (ACCN) praise for California Chief Strong Justice Donald R. Wright, an appointee of conservative Republican Gov. Ronald Reagan was voiced by liberal state Democratic Assemblyman Charles Warren of Los Angeles in a luncheon address during the California bar convention here. Warren told the luncheon, sponsored by the alumni organizations of Columbia and Pepperdine law schools, that despite predictions, the state high court has not entered a period of strict construction doldrums since Wright became Chief Justice some two years ago. The Assemblyman, who is chairman of the state lower houses judiciary committee, added that unlike his counterpart (Warren E. Burger) on the national Supreme Court, Wright has not taken incompatible with the positions preservation of jury trials. (On this point, later in his remarks, Assemblyman Warren emphasized that personally, I view with extreme suspicion any move to abolish jury trials. If there are faults, he said, the system can be reformed, but basically, it's working well, and we should retain it. As to Chief Justice Wrights record in heading the state high bench, Warren cited Court decisions which Wright wrote or participated in, favoring the rights of the accused in criminal cases, upholding civil liberties, favoring the consumer as against rigid collection and repossession laws, validating the right of students to vote from their actual places of residence rather than from their parents homes, and invalidating the present school financing system in the state because it has resulted in crucial : differences between school districts in available funds. Warren characterized this last decision as a truly significant opinion. Of the student voting decision, he observed that in my opinion, the same principle could not have been enacted by the because of the legislature, generational and conservative bias of many of its members on this subject. During the question period following his remarks, Warren commented that it's remarkable how few of these key decisions were close ones, and how much the Chief Justice has been able to bring the Court together. ( connection with the Chicago Housing of construction Authoritys segregated public housing. The Appeals Court opinion, rendered by Judge F. Brian Duffy, said HUD Secretary George Romney "must De adjudged liable" lor trie disposition of IIUD funds. However, the opinion said the decision should not be interpreted as a broad license for interference in an already beleaguered federal agency." The court remanded the suit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union to U.S. District Court Judge Richard B. Austin. Austin originally dismissed the suit against HUD, holding that relief was already granted in a companion suit against the CHA. In 1969 Austin had found the city agency guilty cf discrimination and enjoined CHA officials from building public housing in exclusively black neighborhoods. The three-judg- e Appeals Court ruled that a separate action could be brought against HUD, and that the federal agency should be held liable for discrimination. The ACLU hail the decision as a legal landmark that could affect :-- public housing throughout I A II Bar Panel Told Utah Supreme Court Decision Liberal Democrat U the country. ACLU Alexander Attorney Pclikuff said the decision could bring public housing into the predominantly white suburbs, because HUDs authority extends beyond the city limits. At the very least, Polikoff said, HUD will probably have to come up with a new and comprehensive plan. U.S. Brings Suit On Bias Against 'Pot' Should Be Legitimatized him imposing his use of the Prof. John stigmatized product of Stanford Kaplan Unitversity law school told a panel on the marijuana problem here, September 16. The panel was a feature of this years annual meeting of the State Bar of California. Vigorously advocating scrapping our present marijuana prohibition laws in favor of legalization and licensing, similar to regulation of the liquor traffic, Prof. Kaplan did most of the talking at the panel which was set up in the form of a criminalizing sanctions for legislative" hearing. from Kaplan as the hearing witness, by shooting questions at him, were three actual California legislators State Senator Gordon Cologne of Indio, and State Assemblymen W. Craig Biddle of Riverside and Pete Wilson of San Diego. Wilson is also a candidate for mayor of San Diego in Taking - WASHINGTON (UPI) The Justice Department has filed civil rights suits accusing a company and unions in Illinois and Missouri with discriminating against blacks, Mexican Americans and women. Atty. Gen. Mitchell said a suit was filed in U.S. District Court in East St. Iionis, III., charging the Obear-Neste- r Glass Company and five unions representing its employes with discrimination against blacks and women. It is the first suit filed by the Dcpartmort charging both racial and vex discrimination raid only the second suit charging discrimination against women. testimony the September primary. 21 municipal Prof. Kaplan stressed both the of ineffectiveness present marijuana prohibition and the parallel between this current problem and national prohibition of alcohol during the 1920s and early 1930s. Pot is in practice legal, that tolerated is, by police now, at special occasions such as rock festivals, Kaplan pointed out, and this is just one of the reasons why our marijuana laws have become jokes, he emphasized. The fact of futility is accepted increasingly in all sectors of society, even among political conservatives, he said -Even Bob Hope makes jokes about marijuana. Legalizing marijuana would net eliminate the heroin peddler, Kaplan conceded in response to a question by Assemblyman Biddle, but at least it would eliminate his loss leader, the marijuana which he now offers at a low price and which may draw the buyer eventually into buying hard drugs from him. Heroin users can be shown by statistical evidence to have graduated as frequently from alcohol as from marijuana, Kaplan asserted. Assemblyman Wilson wanted to the English experience easy legal access to drugs by addicts in recent years. Actually, it is net so much in point, Kaplan said, because still more recently, the English have become alarmed at some incidents arising know about in allowing American hippies living there who have misused the legal tolerance of drugs, and Parliament has now enacted some controls to drug access. State Senator Cologne inquired about marijuana and driving safety. There are only two studies on the subject so far, Kaplan advised him, and both show that the effect of pot on driving is much less than has been supposed. I have no intention of setting foot in a car with a marijuana using the professor conceded, driver, but still, its nowhere near the threat alcohol is at the wheel." There will inevitably be some health problems if marijuana is legalized, Kaplan said at one point in his remarks, just as cirrhosis of the from Minorities, Females - In DIEGO (ACCN) in no our situation other practically law than in our marijuana legislation do we try to protect an from himself individual by SAN THURSDAY. SElT, 1971 Administration Aide Backs FTC Consumer Rule WASHINGTON (UPI) The administration urged the Federal Trade Commission, September 20, to adopt its proposed rule banning a common installment sides practice under which consumers often have to keep paying for shoddy goods. Under the practice, called holder in due course, retailers often sell installments sales contracts to banks or finance companies. If the product goes bad, the bank or Johnson-Manvill- e Sues For Wider Resident Zoning monthly payments, disclaiming responsibility for the product. Virginia H. Knauer, President Nixons consumer affairs adviser, told the FTC that the practices should be banned as a commercial anachronism preying' on consumers in general and poor people in c particular. "The consumer caught in due course game feels he is batted back and forth like a tennis ball, never turning upon the winning side, Mrs. Knauer said. The seller, who already has his money, says I am sorry, but your problem is not covered by the warranty. The buyer of the (installment) note - A SOMERVILLE, N.J. (UPI) New exsuburb is wealthy Jersey pected to answer in court in Somerville, N.J., charges by one of the nation's industrial giants that the towns big-lzoning keeps out old people, young people, minority groups and the twentieth century. The suit against the five-acrsingle-familzoning in Bedminster township, is just another in the recent attacks on large-lo- t suburban zoning. But it is unique in that the Corp. plaintiff is the The zoning challenge is believed the first by a major U.S. corporation. The suit was filed in the law division of Superior Court here. ot e, y Johns-Manvil- finance firm nevertheless demands continued le e brought the suit when Bedminster relived to cooperate with the company's plans to develop about 467 acres it owns e here as a cluster-pla- n complex. The suit alleges that the five-acr- e zoning, which excludes multiple-uni- t dwellings as well, has the effect of excluding others rom the plaintiff's property because of religious principles, race, color, ancestry or national origin. says, 1 cannot accept for the faulty merchandise; you should take your problem to the man who sold it to you. I am interested only in the money you owe me. Mrs. Knauer said this deprives the consumer of his only effective bargaining tool in the case of defective goods or services and other types of by the seller that is, suspension of payments until the dispute is resolved. Mrs. Knauers testimony led off four days of FTC public hearings on its proposed rule to end the practice by making the bank or finance firm just as responsible for the product as was the original seller. responsibility ce Johns-Manvill- President Assails Nader's Volvo office-townhous- . Attack On Car based on "strange statistics. But the head of the Swedish automotive group said Volvo is aware that its service organization in the U.S. could be Nixon Names Coast Woman As Treasurer improved. Nader criticized Volvo last week, saying the company was claiming its cars were service-fre- e while complaints WASHINGTON (UPI) Nixon has appointed Romana Banuelos, a Mexican-America- n and successful Los Angeles businesswoman, to be Treasurer of the United States. -P- resident Mrs. The brunette, Banuelos is chairman of the board of the Pan-Ameiic- Ba of Earl Los Angeles, and also president of the Ramona Mexican Food Byproducts which she founded in 1949. As Treasurer, she succeeds Dorothy Kabis who died July 3 of a heart attack. In the nonpolicy making post, she will sign all U.S. currency. She will be the sixth woman and the 34th person to hold the position. liver went up after the Repeal of (alcohol) Prohibition." But, he asserted, both medical treatment and control of the commerce in the drug can be more effectively carried out by legilizalion plus adequate ls. licensing cn'I he panel was moderated by Norman E. Mattconi of San Jose, representing the Santa Clara County Bar. - Pehr G. (UPI) of Volvo, Gyllenhammar, president has declared that Ralph Nader's attack on his firms advertising and servin' in the United States was STOCKHOLM collected by Naders consumer organization indicated the Swedish cars often need repairs. Naders report is based on replies to an advertisement which ?sked Volvo owners who had complaints to contact him, Gyllenhammar said. He based his report on 140 cars, but we sell more than 50,000 vehicles in the United States this year alone. This is strange statistics. Gyllenhammar said Volvo had no intention of changing its advertising which he said was based on a Swedish investigation which showed that the average Volvo lasted for 13 years. Gyllenhammar made his remarks during a television interview taped in the United States by the Swedish Broadcasting Corp. (SR). Teenagers Vote Where They Live frs AUSTIN, TEX. (UPI) Texas the 18 age group may now register and vote where they live, regardless of where their parents might reside. n, through 20 r : .... |