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Show Nm Term Begins Monday ' The S.ili Writer - WASHINGTON The draft, a topic the Supreme Court has not jet agreed to studj fully, already looms as the dominant legal issue of term that bethe 1980-8gins Monday The nation's highest court has before it nine months of fine tuning" past rulings on such familiar issues as racial quotes, sexual bias, abortion. parental rights and open courts But perhaps the most closely watched question will be this. 1 Require Reqistration? Can the government require young men to register for possible military service and require those men to serve when young women face no such requirements Some 4 million young men were required to register for the draft last July when Justice William J. Brennan Jr. temporarily set aside a lower court ruling striking down draft registration and the military draft itself tional A as unconstitu- court in ruled that three-judg- e Philadelphia draft registration and military conscription, as provided for in the Military Selective Service Act. ment's appeal draft and the draft would be eliminated until Congress passed sexually equal act Of the thousands of appeals now pending before it, the court is expected to add about 80 cases to the 78 already scheduled for full review and decision this term Here are the topics raised in some of those 78 cases' RACIAL QUOTAS Last July 2, the court gave the concept of "affirmative action" a momentous victory when it ruled that Congress is free to use racial quotas to make 'p foi pasl discrimination by setting aside for minority-owne- d businesses fixed amounts of federal grants. The same day. the court agreed to study an affirmative action plan aimed at increasing the number of women and minorities employed in California prisons. The courts eventual decision will signal whether states as well as Congress can use racial quotas to attack past bias, or whether those racial quotas represent unconstitutional reverse discrimination against white men The California Supreme Court upheld the racial quotas. SEXUAL BIAS unconstitutionally husband to mortgage the family home without telling his wife The since- rpvicoH lau' haH cnvpn husbands, but not wives, such a right as head and master of the partnership " The justices also will decide in a case involv ing the Texas Department of Community Affairs how far employers must go in proving they did not fire a female employee because of her sex. They also will decide whether labor unions can be held partially liable in s a lawsuit when collectively bargained contracts cause an employer to pay male employees more than female employees doing the same job sex-bia- .ABORTION In 1979, the high court ruled that states may require pregnant, unmarried females under 18 to be ruled mature by a judge before she may undergo an abortion In 1976, the court said states could not give parents of young girls an absolute veto over the decision to have an abortion. Now, the justices must study a Utah law to decide whether states can require physicians to notify parents of young, unmarried girls before their daughters undergo an abortion. Parental Do consent "statutory rape" still is constitutionally against men by excluding laws unconstitutionally outlawed, but the Utah discriminate against case involves women. parental discriminate Likely to Agree In allowing registration to take place last July, Brennan indicated the full Supreme Court is bkely to agree to rule on the acts constitutionality sometime before next summer. If Brennans prediction proves erroneous and the court rejects the govern males The court will review Californias law, which makes it a crime for men or boys to have sexual intercourse with a consenting female not yet 18. Its not a crime for women to have sexual intercourse with a male not yet 18. The court will judge the constitutionality of a Louisiana law allowing a notice. PARENTAL RIGHTS The court will use a Delaware case to decide what rights parents have when states seek to end the parent-chil- d relationship. Delaware officials say all they must prove is the parents unfitness" and that the best interest of the child" would be served by plai ing another family it wit! pving on I s citi Two federal apin' als courts said yes fully zens Opponents say such a standard could be used to take children awav from poor parents and place them with Need Permission Do radio stations sometimes not'd the government's permission to middle-clas- s families OPEN COURTS Last July, the court ruled that the public and the news media have a constitutional right to attend criminal trials even when defendants object But in a case from Miami Beach, the court must now decide whether cameras in the courtroom are constitutional when defendants do not want them there The court also has agreed to hear arguments in cases posing those significant questions What is the scope of a mentally retarded person's right to treatment A federal appeals court said in a Pennsylvania case that such patients have a right to be treated in settings least restrictive to personal liberty " If the Supreme Court agrees, states would have to shift the focus of their mental health programs from large institutions to less formal community centers. 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A federal judge in Chicago said yes, striking down a federal law to the contrary. Are property owners entitled to just compensation when some act of government makes their Richard pp iN 5. 19h0 of ronfi d all-whi- 21 property L'an dcfendunis in federal antitrust cases try to limit their potential liability by distributing the blame for the alleged violations'1 Ixiwer courts change their program format A federal appeals court says yes. even though the Federal Communications Commission and numerous broadcasting companies contend that the "format doctrine" violates freedom of speech of Can the closing-of- f a city street to through traffic be an act of unlawful racial discrimination A federal appeals court said yes because the street closing in Memphis. Tenn , isolated an neighborhood from a predominantly black neighbor- Can tween -- 0 (oher dke Ti ibune. 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