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Show WESTERN AMtRICAHA ForiaJo 0j (r-J.- Uni verb It y f -- u ia- -' (jj Uth fait tokeClty, Wh SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH VOLUME 17, NUMBER 83 Dean Samuel D. Thurman Says NEED MORE MONEY FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH LAW SCHOOL Dean Samuel D. Thurman, of the University of Utah College of Law indicated in an interview that the school could use more money. There is a need to offer more courses. As an example, at the present time no course is offered in insurance Law. "We have a top flight faculty now says the Dean, but there is a need to attract more faculty and there looms the inevitable dilemma facing the Law School . . . how do you attract more "top flight people without sufficient funds? Many Get Aid (ACCN)-- In. Samuel D. Thurman Dean, University of Utah College of Law 1971, Truth-in-Lendi- TUESDAY, MAY 1, 1973 Loophole ng Plugged by Supreme Court Installment Rule created by the WASHINGTON (UPI)-T- he reversed a vederal Reserve Board to help Supreme Court lower court decision and plugged a administer the law. The rule makes loophole which die government said the disclosure requirements apply to allowed installment sellers to take any sale where payment is made in advantage of unwary buyers. four installments regardless of The 1 vote struck down a finding whether the company formally by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of imposes a finance charge. Appeals that a provision of the 1968 The rule was found g law was urn by the appeals court in constitutional. Miami a case involving a In another important action widow, Leila Mourning, who made a the court ruled 4 Tuesday that down payment of $3.95 on some defendants cannot claim entrapment as a defense even though the means of committing an illegal act are provided them 8-- , Truth-in-lendin- 5-- 2,863,643, U.S. families were getting funds via the Aid to Dependent Children program, says Tax Foundations new 17th edition of Facts and Figures on government Finance. The largest number of families, ,443,260, was in California. by a government agent. The four members of the court Joined by Justice Byron R. White provided the majority for striking down a Nixon-appoint- ed federal appeals court ruling that such a practice by an un- dercover agent constituted entrapment 24 Judgeships Added to N.J. Trial Court TRENTON, N.J. (ACCN) Gov. William T. Cahill signed into law, inApril 11, two bills effectively of 24 number the creasing by Superior Court judgeships in this law in state. The first of the measures spongeneral requires sellers to state the sored by Assemblyman William K. total price for a product as well as finance charges, interest rates and Dickey (R., Camden), increases the number of Superior Court judgships other fees. The case focused on the "Four from 96 to 102 by removing the requirement that the Chief Justice certify the need for an additional six judges to litigation involving meadowlands title disputes, which certification has never been given. The second bill, also sponsored by inAssemblyman Dickey, further of creases the number judgeships The Truth-in-Lendi- ng F. Powell Gains Abroad from 102 to 120. The expansion of the judiciary carried out a reform called for by By Norris Willatt the governor in his annual message United Press International to the legislature that more judges It was first introduced in Europe are needed to help reduce the by a West German aerospace firm in backlog of cases and to attempt to Munich in 1968. Since then, the lead abreast of the influx of new has been follpwed by an estimated keep cases. 2,000 firms- - in Germany alone, employing a total of around one million persons. . Utah Supreme Court Decision - The system soon spread to Switzerland. Now Italy appears to be joining the list of countries where this experimental and, in some respects controversial, concept of Capsule ATTORNEY'S . FEES DENIED Small print on invoices provided for attorney fees if legal action necessary relations has management-labo- r become part of the working world. The 25,000 office workers employed by the giant car compnay about 20,000 of them in its have a headquarters in Tur in-considerable choice as M when they start and stop work every day. They will be able to arrive at fuiy interval between 8 and 9 a.m. ; and leave on the same basis at any time between 5 and 7 p.m. The greater flexibility in the evening is possible because employes can also t choose whether to take one or two hours for lunch. The switch by Fiat to Flextime for all its office workers follows preliminary tests throughout 1972. In the jSpring, the management introduced flexible working hours among small groups, a few hundred in all. Then, in the last three months of last year, it extended the program to all office employee in its Mirafiori facility, a totaKof about 9,000. Now all office workers, everywhere, are involved. British firms doing business on the Continent are other converts to Flextime. They include British Petroleum in Hamburg and Rank Xerox in Dusseldorf. In Britain and in France, however, the idea has been greeted with rather more reserve-- in the one, it is said, Spanish Fork Packing Company, for Lowell Castletou, Randy Mason, Mike unidentified Jensen and an student, in law school library. Indian Rights Group Director Appoints Fund the -- BOULDER, COLO. (ACCN) The selection of John E. Echohawk as director of the Native American Rights Fund (NARF) headquartered in Boulder, Colorado has been announced by Charles Lohah, chairman of NARFs steering committee. Echohawk, who was the first University of New Mexico School of Laws special is program to train Indian lawyers, He tribe. a member of the Pawnee inhas been with NARF since its H. Tetches, ception in 1970. David will director, NARFs founding the with work to program continue graduate of as a staff attorney. Plaintiff and Appellant v will Time for serious study Jr. The decision concerning entrapment reinstated the conviction of Richard Russell of Whidbey Island, Wash., for illegally manufacturing, possessing and selling "speed. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in reversing Russells conviction, found an "intolerable degree of participation by an undercover agent in the offense. But the Supreme Courts majority opinion by Justice William H. Rehnquist said it is clear that "the mere fact of deceit cannot prevent a prosecution for there are circumstances when the use of deceit is the only practicable law enforcement technique available. New Work Hours Time Latitude A time to relax. Left to right, David Robtauon, Mike Smith, Ruloa Gill and Mike Llljenquist magazine subscriptions and agreed to pay the same amount each month for 30 months. When Mrs. Mourning realized that the total price was $122.45, she stopped payments. Family Publications Service, Inc., sent dunning letters. The contract provided that it could not be cancelled and that failure to pay would render the entire balance due. When the Legal Services Senior Citizens Center helped Mrs. Mourning bring suit, Federal District Judge William O. Mehrtens ordered the company to pay Mrs. Mourning $100 as a penalty and $1,500 in attorneys fees. But he was reversed by the 5th Circuit which in turn was overruled in Tuesdays opinion by Chief Justice Warren E. Burger. Burger said it is not the function of the court to speculate as to whether the law is unwise or whether the evils which Congress sought to remedy could have been better regulated some other way. The dissenter was Justice Lewis House of Fine Meats, Inc., Trial Court: Trial Court: Defendant and Respondent Plaintiff granted partial summary judgment for owing on open account Attorneys fees denied on whether defendant contractually obligated . . . no that any employee had actual or implied authority defendant to pay attorney fees or interest; and that the signatures or initials on the invoices were intended to be nothing more than an acknowledgment of the receipt of the amount issue of evidence to bind products delivered. Supreme Court : Affirmed. B & R Supply Company v. Brinhurst cited . . . apply basic principles of contract law, namely, the creation of a contract requires a meeting of the minds of the parties; and the burden of so proving is upon the party who claims there was a contract. Defendant never authorized any jiersons who signed the invoices to contract on its behalf other than an oHn account. Plaintiff counsel: Morgan, Sculley, Lunt & Hosier Grant S. Kesler 345 S. State St. Defendant counsel: J. Robert Bullock Aldrich, Bullock & Nelson 32 E. 200 N., Provo (See details page 6) j j .. 4 ! .4 t |