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Show PAGE SIX THE DAILY RECORD FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1971 Median Cost of Court Affirms Privacy Right Hofstra Law the First Amendment, the Court Family Home Up Of observed that the "right to keep Passes Scrutiny information private was bound to 7.7 in Year SAN FRANCISCO (ACCN) - The clash with the right to disseminate By ABA Unit Court has information to the public. California Ex-Conv- - WASHINGTON (ACCN) Half Jie people in the United States who purchased existing single family homes during February, 1971 paid $24,200 or more for them, a boost over a year ago, according to the current survey of 113 selected boards of Realtors conducted by the Department of Research of the National Association of Real Estate Boards. This median price of $24,200 represent an increase of 7.7 per cent over the same month a year ago, according to Mrs. Catherine E. Martini, director of the department. Sales in the existing home market have continued brisk, with volume in February 29 per cent above the same month a year ago, she added. Northeast Most Costly On a regional basis, it cost more to purchase an existing single family home in the Northeast portion of the United States than any other region. The median price was $26,800 in the Northeast, dropping to $25,620 in the West, $23,620 in the South, and $21,480 in the North Central region of the country. Of the total number of existing single family homes sold during February, 1971, 19.9 per cent had two bedrooms or less and 24.7 per cent had four or more bedrooms. The fact that 55.4 of the homes had three bedrooms emphasizes the con- tinuing popularity of this size home, Mrs. Martini said. Overall Rise In comparing the past four revealed the that the months, survey median price dropped in December, 1970, from November's level of $23,170 to $22,840. The median price climbed to $23,670 in January, 1971, and then to the current level of ict Supreme held that a unanimously rehabilitated felon has the right to uie a magazine which exposes his rriminal record long after the event. Balancing the publics right to know against the citizens right to privacy, the Court found that an exfelon has a right to be let alone after he has rejoined the anonymous bulk of the community and has not otherwise reattracted public at- tention to himself. Readers Digest published an article which truthfully identified Marvin Briscoe as having hijacked a truck and engaged in a police shootout some ll years before. Sued Readers Digest Briscoe sued Readers Digest for $1 million claiming an invasion of his privacy. He argued that he was completely rehabilitated and his daughter and friends had not known about his former life until the article appeared. Now, he claimed, he was scorned and abandoned. A trial court dismissed the suit on the ground that he had no legal basis for suing. In an opinion written by Justice Raymone E. Peters the court noted the growing importance of the right to privacy in an age when the mass media can destroy an individuals anonymity, intrude upon his most intimate activities, and expose his most personal characteristics to public gaze. Rights Clash the broad Acknowledging freedoms guaranteed the press by Court Upholds $24,200. Non-Reside- nt By price category, 14.9 per cent of the homes sold in February, 1971, had a sales price of less than $15,000, while 46.6 per cent sold for prices of Welfare Aid $25,000 or more, Mrs. Martini concluded. Attack Fails Baseballs On Reserve Clause - NEW YORK (UPI) The U.S. Court of Appeals struck out Curt Flood's challenge to organized baseball's reserve clause in an opinion filed in Manhattan Federal Court. The court upheld an opinion by Federal Judge Irving Ben Cooper, had dismissed Floods complaint alleging that the reserve clause violated federal and state which anti-tru- laws. st Flood, who had sat out the 1969 season, foregoing a $100,000 salary, when he was traded from the St. Louis Cardinals to the Philadelphia Phillies, filed suit against Commissioner Bowie Kuhn and all the clubs in organized baseball on four grounds. He had objected to being sold or traded, claiming this was "bondage and brought the federal court action charging that the boycott against players violates the antitrust laws both in this country and in Canada, and also claimed that this was a violation of his constitutional right to play for a team of his own choice. One of the main reasons for dismissing the action followed an old Supreme Court decision holding that organized baseball was not subject to anti-trulaws because it was not in involved interstate commerce. In 1953 the Highest Court refused to examine or review its 1922 approach. In concluding, the Appeals Court held that Flood, who had kept the option not to play baseball at all, foreclosed his argument as to his st constitutional "The rights. judgment of dismissal is affirmed. the Court ruled. Flood can now take the case to the U.S. Supreme Court, if he desires. - NEW YORK (UPI) The Manhattan Supreme Court has upheld the request of a North Carolina mother of four children for welfare assistance despite the fact she was not resident of New York City. The Welfare Department took the woman, Mrs. Ruth Smith, to court after she refused the department offer of five bus tickets back to Sanford, N.C. Justice Sidney H. Asch ruled that Mrs. Smith was eligible under the Social Services Law to receive welfare benefits and directed that her petition be accepted. Mrs. Smith and her four children arrived in New York from Sanford March 6 and applied for welfare assistance shortly after arriving. The Welfare Department refused to accept the application and offered to send them back to North Carolina. When they refused to return the Welfare Department took them to court. Mrs. Smith said that she intended to remain in New York and was entitled to the welfare benefits. I'm going to stay in New York, she said. I was on welfare in North Carolina and I should get it here. The Welfare Department contended that since she was eligible for welfare in North Carolina she was not also entitled to receive benefits in New York. Justice Asch said that this was an emergency situation and found that she had made a "proper claim for eligibility. Mrs. Smith said she came here "because my mama was sick and needed me to take care of her. Her mother, Mrs. Ethel Smith, is on welfare here and lives in the Hotel in two Broadway-Centrrooms with seven other members of the family. The hotel rooms cost the City $466.40 a week. Mrs. Ruth Smith and her four children have moved in with her pending the outcome of her case. al Aschs ruling will force the Welfare Department to either pay Mrs. Smith or appeal to a higher court. There was no immediate indication what course the Department would follow. Freedom of the press is not confined to public affairs and persons who have voluntarily sought the spotlight, the Court said, but extends to almost all reporting of recent events, even though it involves the publication of a purely private individuals name or likeness. This is particularly true for "hot news the Court noted, where a deadline must be met. Also, the Court stated it is generally in the public interest to report names of suspects and recent offenders, and facts surrounding past crimes. Little Purpose "However, the Court com- identification of the actor reports of long past crimes usually serves little independent public purpose. Identification of the individual will not usually aid the administration of justice and unless the individual has reattracted the public eye to himself the only "interest that would of curiosity, is be that served usually the opinion stated. Contending that it had a right to report any truthful fact about an individual, Readers Digest also argued that since Briscoe did not have a right to privacy concerning his misdeed when it occurred, it could never be considered private again. Holding to the contrary, the Court looked to life rather than to the law alone. "It would be a crass legal fiction to assert that a matter once public never becomes private again In a nation of 200 million people there is ample opportunity for all but the most infamous to begin a new life. mented, in Jury Picking Begun in Davis Friend Trial - NEW YORK (UPI) Selection of a jury for the trial of David R. Poindexter, wealthy Chicagoan charged with harboring fugitive revolutionary Angela Daivs, has begun in Manhattan federal court under some of the tighest security precautions in the memory of veteran court observers. Marshals and building guards kept a close eye on visitors outside courtroom to the seventh-floo- r which only 80 perspective jurors were admitted. Newsmen were given bright red badges which they must wear at all times while covering the proceedings. A court official said spectators would be admitted to the courtroom after a jury is selected by Judge John M. Cannella. Poindester, a handsome black who appeared in court in a dark business suit and pink shirt, was arrested at a motel here last October with Miss Davis. She currently is awaiting trial in on murder-kidna- p California in with a court connection charges shootout in San Rafael, Calif., last August. Poindexter, son of a former Communist member of Chigago's city council in the 1930s is free in $100,000 bail. He faces five years in prison and a $5,000 fine if convicted. Traffic Court Program for East in June - NEW YORK (ACCN) The 25th annual Atlantic Regional Traffic Court Conference will be held at Fordham University School of Law, June ' The 7 -- 11. five-da- y Conference is being held In cooperation with the American Bar Association Traffic Court Program and the Traffic Institute of Northwestern HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (ACCN) -Hofstra University School of Law, which is in its first year, has received notification of the American Bar Associations approval of the schools compliance with ABA standards for legal education. Dean Mai achy T. Mahon said the ABAs Council for the Section of Legal Education reported the certification and that the section will .recommend to the ABA House of Delegates that the school be granted provisional approval. Dean Mahon said in a statement that the school has received more than 700 applications for enrollment In September and expects to accept about 100 students. Hie school now has a first-yeaclass of eighty-threDean Mahon said new faculty members who will join the school in September are John DeWitt National Group - NEW YORK (ACCN) Formation of the Association of Legal Administrators, with both U.S. and Canadian members, has been announced W. Bradford by Hildebrandt, New York attorney and first president of the association. Regular membership in the group is open to all administrators and managers of private law offices, governmental legal and judicial agencies, corporate legal departments and public service legal firms, Mr. Hildebrandt said. Membership is open to both and there lawyers and g is a class of associate membership for those who do not devote a majority of their time' to non-lawye- rs non-votin- management. Information is available from the associations consulting firm. man ft Weil, in Ardmore, Pa. Alt- e. r Gregory, general counsel and executive director of Community Action for Legal Services, and Abraham P. (Mover, of Cahill, Gordon, Sonnett, Reindel ft Ohl, laaodate profesaora; and Marina Angel, a lecturer at Rutgera University School of Law and a Kent and Stone Scholar, who will be an assistant professor. Businessman Sues Over Iron Curtain Motels - A CLEVELAND (UPI) Cleveland real estate investor has filed a $1.8 million damage suit charging a group of businessmen headed by Cyrus Eaton Jr., squeezed him out of plans to build a chain of motels behind the Iron Curtain. Alfred I. Soltz charged the idea for a motel chain in Eastern Europe was his, but that Eaton, son of wealthy industrialist Cyrus Eaton Sr., and his group took it over. Named defendants in the suit were Eaton, three other persons, and five companies. Soltz said he proposed the motel chain plan to Eaton in 1967, and that Eaton agreed to undertake the plan. Soltz said he obtained a franchise arrangement with Holiday Inns Inc., and was to receive a one-thishare of the profits. But in his suit, Soltz charged the Eaton group arranged an exclusive master licensing agreement with Holiday Inns last year, shutting him out of the deal. The Eaton group announced last hotel was being built year a in Bucharest, Romania, as the first of 20 inns to be constructed in Eastern Europe during the next five rd 24-sto- ry years. Measure Seeks Aid Law Firms Form on Set-Of- f Fishing Fines - WASHINGTON (UPI) Rep. in Thomas M. Pelly, torduced his legislation that he sau would force the deduction oi illegal fishing fines from foreign aid. Pelly said his bill was intended to close a loophole under which the State Department avoided trying to collect for fines imposed by some Latin American countries on U.S. fishermen for fishing o ft their costs. Under the bill, he said, the fines would automatically be deducted from foreign aid if not paid to the United States within 120 days after demand. The deductions from foreign aid would be for fines which the United States contends are illegally imposed on American fishermen by Latin American countries which claim territorial waters up to 200 miles out to sea. The United Stater recognizes only a fishery zone. h., 12-mi- le I 4 New York May Cut Back Time On Abortions ALBANY, N.Y. (ACCN) -Reducing the time in which a legal abortion may be performed from 24 to 20 weeks after conception has been recommended by the State Senates health committee. The group also urged the full upper lawmaking chamber to outlaw commercial referral abortion services. Cutting down the time for legal abortions was the only major change the committee favored in the actual text of New Yorks (resent abortion act, which allows the operation without restriction as to reason and is one of the most liberal in the nation. Adding a proviso to ban the referral services is necessary to protect women, Sen. Tarky Lom- bardi, committee chairman, declared. He charged that the commercial agencies are run by 'aymen, making miliums of dollars at the expense of frightened, desperate women who do not know where else to turn. Some of the concerns, he added, may not be above blackmailing their clients. 'Doomsday Tape Colored Pink To Bar Snafus - The real broadcast teletype tape emergency that would relay a nationwide civil WASHINGTON (UPI) defense warning is now colored pink and sealed in an envelope in a filing cabinet. It used to be yellow and hang on a hook on the wall, right alongside a yellow practice tape. That was the source of the problem February 20 when a teletype operator accidentally chose the wrong tape for the routine weekly test of the emergency action notification system broadcast to all the nation's radio and television stations. The message is transmitted from Cheyenne Mountain, Colo., over the wires of United Press International and the Associated Press. Many stations left the air before the alert was cancelled, 44 minutes later. Now, Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird has ordered the change of color and location for the real emergency tape. He also has ordered the director of civil defense to make periodic rigorous inspections of all (three) national warning centers and report any deficiencies to the Secretary of the Army. In a separate move, both UPI and AP have stopped carrying the emergency test message direct from the Colorado Warning center. Weekly test messages now go to wire service broadcast headquarters in Chicago and New York, where they are authenticated before being transmitted to radio and television stations. i |