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Show 1 a jiipreme Court Strikes Down 'jclative legal Services 1 y" ' jY C. SHARP V . Supreme Court W" ! -;iVOr of Atty. Gen. niw ' ftinsen Monday iat thc Lcgis" f .. : Val Sen-ices com-n com-n 1 has no power to ( . nits awn attorney. '. reversed a ruling y i DisVdct Judge tf Crft wh0 last 5 held that "There ".hine n the nstitu-. nstitu-. ;,'f Utah or the laws a - state that requires ?t: Mature to get the or automation 7 ' attorney general J' ..I enacting legislation 5 :L his duties." l ' ;tice F. Henri Hen-a! Hen-a! rmte the unanimous oite ' voiding the Legal iilr ''Ces committee, which -weaned by Senator : ,;r'jeU. Taylor, R-Moab. 'sjy opinion points out i- '.' the state constitution f ' the attorney general fis ;j, be the legal advisor te officers, apecific-- apecific-- .'including the mem- hers of the Senate and House of Representatives as state officers. "If the Legislature, by fiat, could create its owii (legal advisor, then logic would say it could create 50 or more others for itself, it-self, each of which . . would have to have secretaries secre-taries and other personnel," person-nel," he continued. Such legislation could be ex-tended to legal arl-vtisers arl-vtisers for the governor, state auditor, ' treasurer, secretary of state, and everyone ev-eryone else, in which even the office of the attorney general effectively " could be emasculated and rendered ren-dered impotent," he wrote further. Mr. "Hansen had filed a suit last year seeking a declaratory judgment to hold the Legal Services committee unconstitutional. unconstitution-al. After - Judge Croft . ruled rul-ed aginst him he appealed the case to the Supreme Court. |