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Show Parialu Ordjr Da part t Univoruity of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 V VOLUME 15, NUMBER 139 t ' , riy v SALT Capsule - Burglary and Grand Larceny WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS DENIED ROBERT GONSALES, Plaintiff v. JOHN T. TURNER, Warden Utah State Prison, Defendant Trial Court: Denied writ of habeas corpus Supreme Court: Affirmed. Plaintiff Counsel: Ronald N. Boyce, College of Law, Univ. of Utah Defendant Counsel: Vernon B. Romney and Lauren N. Beasley Justice R. L. Tuckett wrote the decision. See details page 4 - The (UPI) said Justice Department July IS existing antitrust laws are presently adequate to deal with any mergers between coal and oil interests or other sources of energy. Acting Assistant Attorney General Walker B. Comegys of the antitrust division told a house small business subcommittee that the department would carefully scrutinize any future proposals for interfuel mergers. He said all would be checked for possible violations of the Clayton Antitrust Act which prohibits horizontal mergers unions between companies in the same product line and also would be tested against the conglomerate merger principles and policies developed by the Nixon administration. We believe our theories on conglomerate acquisitions are sound and we will continue to enforce the Clayton Act in line with them, he said. We have full confidence that they will be upheld by the Supreme Court when an appropriate case reaches it for decision. job-sear- - ch a woman's pregnancy. Michigan House Speaker William A. Ryan, a Detroit Democrat and leading opponent of the measure, said that the decision might delay a showdown vote in the house, where the bill has been bottled up in LAW Bruce Gordon be 3-- statute. Although the fetus in the specific case at hand was Ryan said: The holding that an unborn child is a person legally entitled to the protection of laws leads one to believe that the court would hold that an unborn child is entitled to protection of the laws against taking of life. This protection, he said should logically begin with conception. ASSOCIATES , committee. The bill has been passed by the Senate and has the backing of Gov. William Milliken. The House social services committee, where the proposal lies, met July 13 and committee chairman David Holmes, said the discussed. The Supreme Court, in a landmark case, ruled 2 last week that a child stillborn after an automobile accident was a person and that his relatives were entitled to sue for damages under the wrongful death WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 1971 Drastic Reforms For Debt Collection Advocated - Drastic David reform credit NEW YORK (ACCN) of the consumer system is necessary, particularly in the court, to eliminate the evils the system inflicts on the debtor, concludes a new Columbia University study. The four-yestudy, titled Debtar ors in Default and released yesterday (Sunday), advocates: Instituting neighborhood consumer courts and revising summons procedures to assure debtors easier access to a day in court. sales of Abolishing expensive merchandise on credit door-to-do- Bruce Gordon has affiliated with the law firm of Nielsen, Conder, Hansen & Henriod, 410 Newhouse Building. Mr. Gordon is a graduate of Brigham Young University and received his J.D. in June from the University of Utah. He served as Assistant Editor of the Utah Law Review and received the Herbert M. Schiller Memorial Scholarship award. In addition, he received the Walker Bank award for the Best Estate Plan. Bruce, his wife Susan, and daughter Robyn, age 2, make their home at 755 East 5th South, Salt Lake City. Murray Brent Gardner Murray Brent Gardner has been appointed a Clerk for Judge Willis W. Ritter of the U.S. District Court. native of San Jose, California, Gardner received a B.A. from San Jose State College and his J.D. from the University of Utah. While at the College of Law he served A Mr. as Vice Chancelor, Moot Court; Editorial Board, Summation and was a recipient of the Herbert M. Schiller Memorial Scholarship. Although his Clerkship appointment is indefinite, he has expressed a desire to eventually locate in the "Bay" area. Mr. Gardner and wife Sharlene have two boys, age ten months and two years. They make their home at 636 University Village. or because these are the most deceptive, fraudulent and unscrupulous sales. Establishing a free-mark- et credit system in which debtors would pay interest according to the risk they represent and repeated defaulters would be denied further credit. widespread Encouraging consumer class action to benefit low-inco- debtors who face prohibitively extravagant legal expenses. The Columbia study was based on interviews with 1,331 debtors in default in New York, Detroit, Philadelphia and Chicago. These are debtors who have been judged by a 'ourt to have defaulted in the debt - Sen. Ed WASHINGTON (UPI) ward M. Kennedy, accuset the American Medical Association today of obstructing almost every major step to improve health care for Americans while degenerating into a propaganda organ for purveying medical politics. Kennedy made a Mistering attack on the AMA and its policies toward affordable health care as he resumed hearings, July 14, by his s., subcommittee on ad- ministrative practices, which is studying activities of Presidential and national commissions. Kennedy said the new round of hearings would focus on the work of commissions in the health care field, which he said remains one of the major unmet challenges in America today. He said that based on findings by health care commissions and their recommendations, no amount of historical gymnastics can hide the public record of AMA opposition to virtually every major health reform in the past 50 years. Kennedy, sponsor of a broad plan for national health insurance, said in a statement that most Americans still cannot obtain adequate health care and become impoverished from the cost of any major illness. The organization of our health services is still a shambles. Why? Because the AMA and its friends in political life, and its friends in the health insurance industry have stood in the way of every major step towards an efficient effective, affordable health care system for the American people. Kennedy said the AMA worked against such programs as health benefits for World War II veterans, Blue Cross and private health insurance, Medicare and today they oppose any meaningful efforts" for review aimed at improving the quality of medical care. obligations. Professor Caplovitz conducted the study whue he was senior research associate at Columbias Bureau of Applied Social Research, which specializes in studies of major social problems. He Is also the author of the book The Poor Pay More, an earlier study of consumers. Professor Caplovitz now teaches sociology at Hunter College. The new study of debtors in default was funded by the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity and The Urban Center at Columbia. Chief among the injustices in the consumer credit system cited by Professor Caplovitz is the failure of the debtor to get his day in court. The courts do not administer justice in consumer disputes, but Caplovitz writes, rather acts as the collection agents of the creditors. At least 20 percent of all default debtors interviewed has valid defenses based on their creditors' failure to live up to their part of the original bargain. If properly represented with legal counsel, undoubtedly many other debtors would be found to have valid Professor defenses. In the three cities where the debtor is entitled to a day in court New York, Chicago and Detroit only seven out of 1,073 persons interviewed had their case heard by a judge, Professor Caplovitz reports. Professor Caplovitz also ad vocates complete abolishment of wage garnishment after a judgment because garnishment is a threat to the debtor out of all proportion to the The amount of his liability. or settles debtor quits freightened his job even when he has a defense, to avoid the stigma of garnishment. Sen. Kennedy Blasts AMA On Health Care senate legislation which would legalize abortions during the first 90 days of would - m A LANSING, MICH. (UPI) recent Michigan Supreme Court ruling has cast a shadow of doubt on the constitutionality of proposed measure abortion involves two irreconcilable views of human nature, one of which could be used to justify the destruction of all unwanted persons, according to a Maryland lawyer. ... Michigan Court Ruling May Deter Abortion Bill abortion (UPI) The reasoning behind court decisions concerning CHICAGO reasoning which holds that a mothers rights are superior to that of an unborn child could be used to justify the destruction or incarceration of all kinds of unwanted or undesirable persons: malformed A WASHINGTON (ACCN) infants, the mentally retarded, the study as to how to convert the skills aged and the infirm. of areospace and defense engineers and scientists to more available Fox said this position assumes occupations will be conducted for man becomes more human through the U. S. Department of Labor by the "It of acculturation. a process National Society of Professional follows then, that there are degrees Engineers. pf human nature. All men are Manpower Administrator Paul J. human, but some are more human Sasser, Jr., said the skill conversion (than others, he said. study will be conducted for 8 months Fox said it also follows that if at a cost of $750,755 by seven there are degrees of human nature, professional societies. are degrees of rights. In the there Fifteen-ma- n study teams will be of case abortion, the mothers would established in Seattle and Los take precedence, since the unborn Angeles as pilot operations. Team leaders will also be hired and child is human to a lesser degree trained in the 12 other areas where than the mother. Fox also said the traditional the Labor Department on April 19th view of human nature Christian launched its $42 million with the empirical view conflicts and training assistance program for as which accepts real only what can unemployed engineers, scientists be confirmed by the senses. and technicians. Associated with the National In our empirical age it is Society of Professional Engineers to us for how hard understand (NSPE) in the study are: American conat nature human exist can Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, American Institute of ception, he said. According to the Christian view, Chemical Engineers, American an embryo at conception is Society of Civil Engineers, however, endowed by (the) Creator with American Society of Mechanical unalienable rights. certain Engineers, Institute of Electricial and Electronic Engineers, and Fox said such a conflict in American Institute of Mining, reasoning on the abortion issue is Metallurgical and Petroleum at work not only in the law but Engineering. throughout our society. All study-teamembers and It is the kind of crisis in belief leaders will be unemployed which can destroy a nation, or even a civilization, he wrote. engineers and scientists. Skills Study For Engineers Sufficient WASHINGTON Abortion Fight Pits Two Views Of Man's Nature In the current issue of the American Bar Association Journal, Robert W. Fox said the type of U.S. Funds for Law CITY, UTAH Lawyer Asserts: Supreme -Court Decision Coal-O- il LAKE In Michigan: Lady Lawmakers Male Bill On House Sales Kill LANSING, MICH. (UPI) - Michi- gan men have felt the sting of womens liberation. the man in the house have the final say, especially No longer does when it cornea to selling his house. The combined danger of six lady lawmakers in the Michigan House, July 12, knocked the man from his roost when a bill which would have allowed men to sell their homes without the approval or knowledge of their wives was defeated. I dont care how you look at this bill, no matter what you do to it it stinks!" declared Rep. Josephone Hun singer, I cant imagine who concocted something of this kind, said Rep. Lucille McCollough, This is a bad bill. If I were a man, Id be ashamed to vote for it. But vote for it the men did. The allmale Michigan Senate passed the bill with little debate earlier this year. But in the House, the bill picked up only 53 of the 55 votes needed for passage. Forty-fou- r lawmakers, including six of the seven female House voted against the seventh woman The proposal. has Rep. Daisy Elliott, been ill for the put several weeks and unable to attend house sessions. The proposal would have applied only to homestead property the man owned singly. Joint ownership would still require the approval of both members, parties. |