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Show i l i ,it; i; i... J . i iniv.T'. JiLf ' . If. f V t!4 n . I'-I'pdt- y. ...... SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH VOLUME 17, NUMBER 154 Childerns TV Facing Trouble, Lawyers Told - WASHINGTON (UPI) Federal Trade Commission Chairman Lewis Engman says broadcasters and advertisers face a legal crackdown unless they police television advertising that might have adverse effects on children. If television deceives our children, if it frustrates them through or false . misleading promises, if it promotes the sale of dangerous toys or other products, if it fosters dietary habits which enI think it will danger their health soon find itself circumscribed by and restrictions legal Engman requirements," said well-balanc- Monday. Engman told the American Bar Association's Young Lawyers organization it was time for ed product. Encouragement for children to with the and ask working government parents to buy a product. ' to a at public develop large, Exposing children to advoluntary code that would spell out vertisements for products which what is acceptable and what is not promise to affect the users mood or acceptable advertising directed at Use of program characters, children. A senior FTC official said the first either live or ' animated, to sell of a series of meetings to draft such products to children. Use of material which portrays guidelines was tentatively scheduled children in unsafe acts or which week. later this Engman assured the lawyers that frightens children. broadcasters In Disciplining of Lawyers - . and advertisers, SUPBEME C0UBT OF THE UNITED STATES Syllabus well-bein- g. GAFFNEY v. CUMMINGS , - The American Bar Association is being sued by a group of law students from San Diego. A complaint has been served upon Robert W. Meserve, president of the' ABA. Dean Maxwell S. Boas, of Western State University Law School, Anaheim, served the complaint. Judicature Group Names New President - elected John S. Clark of Petoskey, Mich., was president of the American Judicature Society at its annual meeting here last week. Gark, a past president of the State Bar of Michigan, succeeds Judge Robert H. Hall of Atlanta, Ga., who term. Like completed a two-yeterm as a Hall, Gark served treasurer of the society before being elected president. The American Judicature Society last week also presented its justice award to Judge Alfred P. Murrah, director of the Federal Judicial Center. Judge Murrah, who has served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the tenth circuit since 1940, received the award in recognition of his many years of service in advocating the efficient administration of justice. WASHINGTON The suit, a class action, was brought in the U.S. District Court in San Diego by Gordon M. Jackson, Jr., and four other students, on behalf of themselves and all persons similarly situated, charging that they have been deprived of rights by an ABA resolution which would prevent students of law schools not approved by the ABA from participating in American Bar Association activities. The students Jackson, Lee Lawless, Donald P. Brigham, Sheila McGonigle and Jane A. Cornish-- all attend schools which have been accredited by the California State Bar but which have not been approved by the ABA. Under the resolution, adopted last April by the Board of Governors of the ABA law student division, and in May by the ABA Board of Governors, would limit the right to hold office, to membership in the ABA House of Delegates, and to participation in ABA affairs to those members of the Law Student Division who attend ABA-approv- ed schools. ar IRS Orders Courts To Roll Back Costs NASHVILLE, TENN. (UPI) -The Internal Revenue Service has ordered chancery, circuit and criminal courts in Tennessee to roll back court cost increases which went into effect July 1. The agency said the hikes were in violation of the y price freeze. An estimated 2,000 persons will receive refunds ranging from $2.25 to $10, court sources slid. 60-da- et al. THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT THE DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT COURT FOR APPEAL FROM 71-14- WASHINGTON uicDdi tusuuduunuinew xorK ana presently with the Michigan State Bar. Last year, the panelists reported, at least 12 states had good disciplinary systems; 30 more were well along the way toward developing good systems, and the remainder were considered inadequate. Since then, the remainder of the states have begun to move, they said. Money is the principal problem in developing disciplinary systems, they said. In states which do not have an integrated bar, no one agency has responsibility and it is . San Diego Law Students To Sue ABA ; Watergate Said Fair Test there will be action in the field whether it is voluntary action or action by the. Congress or governACCN News Service ment agencies. WASHINGTON Watergate will The FTC chairman said the code be a tough and fair test of the should at least cover these areas: of Distortion of product per- nation's system weredisciplining told at an formance through use of visual lawyers, reporters ABA press conference. techniques. The committees progress was Confusion over sale prices and by former U.S. Supreme reported what exactly is included in a quoted Court Justice Tom C. Gark, original price. chairman of the ABA committee Advertisements which enestablished in 1967 to develop courage the purchase of food items in disciplinary like soft drinks, candy and snacks uniformity Pitts, of procedures; Henry ' without explaining how they relate of the chairman to a nutrition Chicago, present committee; and Michael Frank, program. Use of premiums and contests to committee reporter under Clark and create artificial demand for. a a disciplinary official, formerly of A. TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1973 , 76. Argued February 27, 1973 Decided June 18, 1973 Connecticuts legislative apportionment plan was held by the District Court to be unconstitutional because partisan political structuring had resulted in excessive population deviations in the House districting. Held: 1. Minor deviations from mathematical equality among state legislative districts do not make out a prima facie case of invidious discrimination under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, and in this case, where the House districts deviated on the average by 1.9 and the maximum deviation was 7.83, a prima fade case was not made out. Pp. 6. therefore difficult to raise money to finance a system. states now Many require registration and use the funds thereby generated to maintain a disciplinary program, the panelists said. Discipline should be under control of the highest court of each jurisdiction, Gark suggested, using committees of the bar to impiement procedures. A statewide uniform committee on discipline eliminates problems of local enforcement, he non-integrat- said. Pitts described the mechanics of his committee, which he called a Each working committee." member has jurisdiction over a certain number of states, he said, traveling among them to assist and encourage the states to develop their ' own systems. Frank, praising the work of the committee, said that five years ago ' mechanism the disciplinary have couldnt the nation throughout handled the situation posed by Watergate, which involves possible disciplinary violations by attorneys licensed by many different states. Today, the states having most at the attorneys involved in Watergate have good disciplinary procedures, he said. There is no federal license to practice, he pointed out. Each state must handle disciplinary matters involving attorneys which it licenses. federal licensing system would be useful, all agreed, to permit reciprocity between states. The data bank established by the ABA disciplinary committee does permit a reciprocal exchange of .s information between states, they said, but a uniform reciprocal licensing arrangement permitting disciplinary jurisdiction where the attorney is practicing rather than where he is licensed, would be A 6-1- political fairness principle that achieves a rough approximation of the statewide political strengths of the two major parties does not violate the Equal Protection Qause. Pp. 0. 2. A 17-2- 341 F. Supp. 139, reversed. White, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Burger, C. J., Sad Stewart, Blackmun, Powell, and Rehnquist, JJ., joined. Brennan, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which Douglas beneficial. and Marshall, JJ., joined. Frank cited the example of one attorney, disbarred in me state for bank robbery, who moved to another state and practiced for several years before being caught when he again robbed a bank. New Bar Unit To Study Law Enforcement - WASHINGTON William B. an Atlanta attorney and Spann, Jr., former chairman of the American President in the same sense as any other member of the Cabinet, ought to have ultimate responsibility Bar Associations House of for investigating and prosecuting Weddings Legalize Delegates, has been named chair- some types of federal crimes. Status of Couples man of a newly created Special This is another way of saying A total of LIMA, PERU (UPI) Cbmmittee to Study Federal Law that there may be some functions 134 couples were married in public Enforcement Agencies. presently part of the activity of the in historic Armas square in downABA President announced forDepartment of Justice or other town Lima. The mass wedding was mation of the comagencies which can somehow be mittee last June. At that time he said removed from politics . . ., sponsored by city hall to legalize the status of couples living out of that the committee would look into Meserve explained. some functions of the U.S. Depart- - He emphasized that the com- wedlock. Many of the common law couples ment of Justice and other agencies mittee's work is not intended to were accompanied by their children. which can somehow be removed probe Watergate. The mass ceremony was led by from politics more than they have Others named to the committee been. are Chester Bedell, Jacksonville, Alejandro Zegarra Tavara, 72, and Luz Del Carmen Blarezo Crisanto, He said me question the comFla.; New Hampshire Supreme mittee would likely examine is Court Justice William A. Grimes; 46. Youngest couple was Martha Juan whether the attorney general, who Keith Mossman, Vinton, la.; and Carmela Acevedo, 16, and '' 25. 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