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Show Page 20 - THE HERALD. Provo, Utah, 22. 1985 Wednesday, May Meese Orders New Study of - WASHINGTON Attor(UPI) ney General Edwin Meese Monday named a new commission to study pornography in the United States and recommend laws to improve the "moral climate" in tion. "By its very nature pornography is not protected by the Constitution," Meese said. Meese said a healthy society must concern itself "rsarding the ways in which its people publicly entertain themselves and the moral climate in which its children are 'which American children are reared. The pornography commission will conduct hearings in Washington, Chicago, New York, Miami and Los Angeles, look at published studies of the subject and focus on graphic sexual materials. Meese said the recommendations should be in keeping with the First Amendment's guarantee of free speech, even though pornography does not qualify for such protec- - reared." However, Barry Lynn, legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union, said "There are already too many ways for government agencies to restrict the right of Americans to see and read what they choose about human sexuality. "The great majority Action Highlights - WASHINGTON (L'PIl Highlights .Monday's Supreme Court action: of Rulings -- Ruled 3 that a magazine violated copy, right law by scooping former President Gerald Ford on his biographical account of his 1974 pardon of Richard Nixon for Watergate crimes. Justices William Brennan. Byron White and Thurgood Marshall dissented. Harper & Row vs. Nation Enterprises I. Made it easier for corporations to sue 'distant debtors, ruling that a Miami fast .food chain can file suit in Florida against a Michigan franchise owner. Justices John Paul Stevens and White dissented. Justice Lewis Powell did not participate. Burger King vs. Kudzewiczi. '. that a Massachusetts prisonRuled, er's due process rights were not violated during a disciplinary hearing when prison officials failed to state in the written record why they denied his request to call certain' witnesses. Justice Powell did not take part. Ponte vs. Real l. Unanimously held the Medicaid Act, which does not not apply to mental institutions, also does not cover intermediate care facilities that provide the same services as mental hospitals. Connecticut Department of Income Maintenance vs. Heckler). Ruled with Justice Powell abstaining, that the due process clause does not generally require a sentencing court to consider alternatives to prison before revoking a criminal's probation. Black vs. Cases Accepted " Agreed to decide whether states can require doctors to do all in their power to keep fetuses alive when performing aborDiamond and Daley vs. tions. Charles and Hope Clinic I. Will decide in a states' rights case from Wisconsin whether states can refuse to do business with companies that break federal labor laws. Wisconsin Dept. of Industry vs. Gould l. Cases rejected Left intact a ruling that the Drug En- forcement Administration discriminated against black agents in wages, job assign- ments and promotions. Edwin Meese vs. Henry Wegar). Let stand a ruling the federal government cannot be forced to lobby Congress lor rnoney to pay lor a school desegregation Board of Education vs. City of plan. Chicago). ' Rejected Florida's appeal of a ruling customs agents may not board vessels to conduct routine document examinations and then search for drugs without reasonable State of suspicion of smuggling. Florida vs. Silvio Zalra). . WASHINGTON dents and other - Presi(UPI; public figures do It might gaging morally offend people but it does not justify a censorship crusade." Meese said that it was necessary to look at pornogrpahy because in the 15 years since the last federal study "the content of pornography has radically changed, with more and more mphasis on extreme violence." Meese said that "with pornography we are not dealing with one passing incident, one magazine or one play or one film. We are dealing with a general tendency that is pervading our entire culture, including the culture known to very young children." Henry Hudson, the common not forfeit copyright protection when they write memoirs that also happen to contain news, the Supreme Court says. In a decision Monday, the court said The Nation magazine violated copyright law by writing a news story based on an unauthorized manuscript of President Ger6-- 3 ald Ford's book, "A Time to Heal." The book contained from Ford's account quotations of his pardon of Richard Nixon for Watergate offenses. Writing for the court, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor said The Nation's use of the material a few days before its 1979 publication hurt the potential market for Ford's book and was not "excused by the public's interest in the subject matter. "The fact that the words the author has chosen to clothe his narrative may of themselves be newsworthy is not an independent justification for unauthorized copying," she said. . The financial impact of Monday's the ruling was only $12,500 amount Harper & Row Publishers lost when Time magazine canceled a contract to publish excerpts of the book prior to publication. But the constitutional stakes are higher, limiting the ability of reporters to write about newsworthy manuscripts, said attorneys for news media organizations. Floyd Abrams, who represented The Nation, said he feared the ruling would encourage high officials to use the copyright law to hide important news from the public. "The effect of the ruling is to deny to the public the opportunity to learn facts about the most firm; the Rev. Bruce Ritter, president of Covenant House, which operates crisis centers in several cities; Frederick Schauer, professor of law tat the University of Michigan law school, and Deanne Tilton, president, California Consortium of Child Abuse Councils. Hearings will be held in Washand tentatively ington June in Chicago Houston July Los Angeles, Oct. Sept. Miami Nov. 1 and New York, vice-mayo- Family;" District Judge U.S. 19-2- 25-2- 16-1- 11-1- 2, 20-2- Ed- Jan. ward Garcia of Sacramento, Calif.; Ellen Levine, vice president of the CBS magazine division; Tex Lezar, former assistant attorney general and now member of a Dallas law 7-- Meese said the commission be in existence for one year and have $400,000 to $500,000 to spend. Its report is due in. June 1986. Edwin Meese mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm TP m JuU taC siggov- y 9g v ) 6 100 SATISFACTIO N GUAR ANTEED m X ) on newsworthy books of the Nixons and the Carters and Fords of the future will be obliged to report on it less well by paraphrasing instead of quoting, by writing amorphously rather than concretely." The book publishing industry praised the ruling as "an affirmation of the integrity of the publishing gr&phy County, Va., was named commission chairman. Other members are: Judith Veronica Becker, associate professor of clinical psychology in psychiatry at Columbia Unr iversity; Diane Cusack, of Scottsdale, Ariz.; Park Elliott Dietz, associate professor of law at the University of Virginia; James Dobson, president of the syndicated radio program "Focus on the nificant events involving our ernment as soon as those facts are available," he said. Justice William Brennan, who with Justices Byron White and Thurgood Marshall dissented in the case, said The Nation article fell within the "fair use" exception to copyright law. The "fair use" concept permits use of copyrighted material without an author's consent for criticism, comment, research and news reporting. "The Nation had every right to seek to be the first to disclose these facts and ideas to the public," Brennan wrote. Because of the ruling, Abrams said, "Journalists reporting Emm Jr wealth's attorney of Arlington in sexual activity. Court Rules Against Magazine in Case of Presidential Memoirs Supreme Court - of pornogra- phy is about consenting adults en fflf '1 m rrm i Jbf cookies m ri o MANUFACTURER COUPON . ms m EXPIRES NOVEMBER TIN E 5, 1985 1 process." Jon Baumgarten, for the Association of American Publishers Inc., said the decision will enable publishers to make contracts with prominent figures "without turning publishers' offices into an armed GOOD TOWARD PURCHASE OF ANY PACKAGE OF MOTHER'S COOKIES Mi Gf ocei Mother s Cookies hi leoeem ms coupon tace value phs 8c lot twuftng it coofliiions ol offer have oeen comoiiefl wiin by you and yout customei invoices piovimj ww iu wwn iDupuu pmenmi i(H reoempuon must Of Snowfl upon request Coupon may noi be assignee oi Itansieired Customer musl pav any sales in Casnviiue- -1 ?Oc Coupon vtwfl wrter presented by outvoe oerrcy w txcwei w wfn use is pionioiiefl restricted or ued This otter limited lo one coupon per packaoe of Mother s Cookies Mano Mother s Cake A Cookie Co .Bo H16 Cumon Iowa W734 camp." In other action Monday, the DIV court agreed to decide the constitutionality of an Illinois law requiring doctors to do all in their power to keep aborted fetuses alive. 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