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The Republican anti-crime anti-crime initiative will include a number of other gun biiis. Those Second Amendment rights." mciuoe legislation maic- ing it harder for mentally mental-ly ill people to buy guns, opening up juve- nile crime records for ""B background checks, enhancing sentences for people convicted of using guns to commit com-mit crimes, requiring school suspension sus-pension for students caught with dangerous weapons and adding shooting proficiency to requirements require-ments for obtaining a state concealed-weapons permit. SB79, the bill to make violent misdemeanor convictions grounds to prohibit gun ownership, owner-ship, had been popular with political leaders before the lobbying lob-bying began. Democratic lawmakers and Gov. Mike Leavitt pushed the bill as one of the priority items for an Court delivers opposite alcohol rulings Bars pay fines; no suit against 7-Eleven SALT LAKE CITY (AP) The Utah Supreme Court Tuesday went in two directions on a pair of cases involving alcohol, alco-hol, upholding the reduction of damages against private clubs in one case but potentially holding a convenience store accountable in another. The Supreme Court overturned over-turned a trial court's decision to award punitive damages to the parents of Sean Adkins. a 17-year-old who was killed in 1994 while trying to change a tire in the emergency lane of Interstate 80 when a drunken driver swerved into the ylane traveling between 50 and 65 miles per hour. The driver, Paul Bredehoft, had spent the night drinking at several Salt Lake clubs. Two of the private clubs Uncle Bart's and Charley's Club were initially ini-tially found liable for the death by a jury. Blood tests showed Bredehoft's blood alcohol percentage per-centage w as .27, more than three times the level at which a person is presumed to be drunk. In a lawsuit after Bredehoft's criminal conviction, a trial court awarded the boy's family $1.5 million from Bredehoft, $200,000 in damages from each of the clubs and an additional $350,000 in punitive damages from the clubs $250,000 from Uncle Bart's and $100,000 from Charley's Club. But in a 3-2 opinion, the Supreme Court threw out those judgments, saying the Dramshop Act protects the clubs from all but the burial expenses, which School's In sossion...plooso flrluo carefully. As part of its final expansion, Stein Eriksen Lodge is adding 1 1 new condominiums. These will be the last of the Lodge ever built, so they have been designed to be the "best of the best." Choose from three- or four-bedroom floor plans. 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SB79 can still be debated on its own merits, but its prospects for passage are lessened by not being included in the crime package. pack-age. The measure, sponsored by Sen. Terry Spencer. R-Layton. lists 30-odd misdemeanors that would carry a three-year ban on purchase and possession. were $7,725. The $1.5 million judgment against Bredehoft stands, but it's not clear how he will pay it. He was sentenced to up to 15 years in prison for the accident. "We're devastated," said Edward Garrett, attorney for the youth's parents, Michael and Roberta Adkins. "What this does is trivialize the life of a child. I might have expected this from a 19th century court, but not a 21st century court." Kent Know ley, president of the Utah Hospitality Association, hailed the decision, saying, "It's tough enough being a business whether it's a club or a pharmacy or a construction company without having to fear for your hfe every day when you open the,, door because of something someone else did, not something you did." The Legislature has since changed the Dramshop law to make it more likely that bar owners own-ers would face liability in such cases. "We are not unmindful of the deep loss suffered by the plaintiffs plain-tiffs in the tragic death of their son," Chief Justice Richard Howe s majority opinion said. "However, judicial restrain prevents pre-vents us from affording greater recovery to the plaintiffs against the dramshop defendants where the legislature has not so provided." provid-ed." In another ruling Tuesday, the Supreme Court reversed a trial court's decision to dismiss a case against a Salt Lake County 7-Eleven 7-Eleven convenience store that sold beer to 19-year-old Douglas Hoyneinl991. The suit was filed under common com-mon law because at the time of the accident, the Dramshop Act 7T Saturday. January 22. 2000 package The crimes ranged from sim ple assault to lewdness involving a child and certain drug crimes. A Salt Lake Tribune poll conducted con-ducted at the end of December showed that more than two-thirds two-thirds of the Utah residents surveyed sur-veyed supported the concept. The National Rifle Association's Brian Judy, who was brought in from Sacramento to marshal votes against the bill, suggested sug-gested an alternative approach could be to raise some violent misdemeanors misde-meanors to the level of felonies. Meantime, lobbying lob-bying bv gun owners via phone calls and e-mail to legislators was intense. "Heavy duty," Rep. Patrice Arent, D-Holladay, said of the barrage of correspondence. "Clearly, the lobbying from the Shooting Sports Association and the NRA has had an impact." "It's unfortunate.'" she said. "It is a narrowly tailored bill to deal with a problem and not intended to take away anyone's Second Amendment rights." "I guess they just bowed to the pressure," said Rep. Gary Cox, D-Kearns. ' "We got a lot of calls and e-mail e-mail from the NRA." only applied to places where the alcohol w as consumed. In a 3-2 decision, the high court sent the case back to the trial court. Hoyne purchased the beer with a sheet of paper containing his name. Social Security number, num-ber, address and false date of birth. The paper read: "The above said is awaiting a copy of driver license. Please allow this as a form of I.D." Hoyne shared the alcohol with three other teens, among them. Shawna Mackay. 16. Mackay later got into a truck with one of the teens. The truck rolled over after the driver tried to pass a bicyclist and lost control. She suffered suf-fered a serious head injury and will require lifelong assistance, f Her parents tried to sue 7-Eleven, 7-Eleven, claiming the store was negligent in selling alcohol to a minor. But a trial court dismissed the case, ruling that it was the consumption of alcohol, not its sale, which led to the accident. The Supreme Court reversed the trial court's summary judgment, judg-ment, sayirg 7-Eleven could have "reasonably foreseen" that an accident could occur when beer was sold to a teen-ager. The court ruled that although Peacock was not the one driving the truck that rolled over. 7-Eleven 7-Eleven still could be responsible because it wat obvious that he planned to share the alcohol. "Peacock purchased two 12-packs 12-packs of cold beer which would have exceeded any amount that he might consume himself in a short time and also would have raised an inference that he intended to share the beer with others," the court wrote in its decision. Save $ on the Web buying rustic, log, , southwestern 4 mexicarv furniture. See our catalog www.redtroutfurniture.cofrJ irJ V ui .11. rirl if:' c i.nr O ui (. January Special t'X 23 : : i.U.V ! ' |