News Scrapbooks 1977-1979

·~.,a, 1<177 USD courtroom dedicated Southern Cross Reporter

'Conscience is highest court'

freedom of speech with economic freedoms . GRANT MORRIS, ing dean, said the xactly 45 years after the U.S Supreme Court overturned a miscarriage of justice in an Alabama case rn wh ich seven men we,4 t;OnvIcted of a capital offense w1thou benefit of legal coun sel in appearance and ur111shings to resemble t he U .S. Supreme Court c hambers between 1810-1860. Dean Donald Weckste1n t 11r1e out from his sabbatica l leave to 11r:t1c1pate in t he ded1 cat1 on He rntro uced distin - gu ished guests and donors o the new courtroom. First official use of the courtroom was made by the California state Supreme Court which heard three cases Monday afternoon. dedication took place I He sai d the new ourtroom 1s a "courtroom of th ijast, " des·gned

Justice and ethica l training rn the law were pointed up when the Joseph P. Grace courtroom at the University of San Diego's law school was dedicated last Monday. In accepting the courtroom from USD President Author Hughes, Bishop Leo T. Maher, chairman of the board of trustees, said. "THE BASIC function of ethical trai ni ng is to form an upright conscience. The law of every man's private conscience is a court and it is the highest supreme court for Judgment or justice. "To act in accordance with their own personal highest cou rt-their conscience -is the professional ethic al traini n_g young students of law will receive In this courtroom," h added Milton Fnedman, 1976 Nobel Prrze winner In economics, gave the dedicatory address rn wh ich he linked law and

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SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY MORNING, NCVEft\BER 8

'NOT IN SESSION'-Bishop Leo T. Maher. as chairman of the board of trustees for the University of San Diego, speaks at the dedication ceremonies of the new law school courtroom. Or. Author Hughes, USO president, second from left, presented the facility to the bishop. Others seated are, from left,

Dean Donald Weckstein; Dr. tlu&hes; Milton Friedman, Nobel prize-winner in economics, dedication speaker; Acting Dean Grant Morris; Sister Sally Furay, USD vice president and provost; and Msgr. I. Brent Eagen , diocesan chancellor, who gave the benedic- tion.- SC photo t

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th San Diego Roman Catholic D10c se before delivering dedicatmn address at USD Law Schools new courtroom facili- ty

ate Says Economic, Freedoms Lin ed

1 £'11 d er ated mflat1 stroyed that "I say the go sellmg these bonds operat- mg one of the biggPst bucket shops h our history " Fried- man said 'Banke tell me they agree that savings bonds are a temble tnvest- n-ent, but when I a k them whv they sell them, they say 'The Treasury would be very Lnhappy 1f w didn't.'" T\' AD BA.. Similai Jy, Friedman - wielder of a razor sharp nee- dle m polemic - said that some so-called mtellectuals have protested the govern- ment s pumshmg of Hustl~r tagazine·spubhsher for dis- t11butrng pornography, but have !SSt.ed miry a whimper over the government's ban of radio and teleVJSion ciga- rette advertising "Yet 1 cannot see much difference between these cases," Fned- man said In the academic world, similar forces are at work. aid the professor emeritus, who recently retired from the L nlvefSlty of Chicago to become a senior research fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution. Scienti ·ts and medica! researchers who exist on grants from the Na- t10nal Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation are quite reluc- tant to cntictze government pro ams, he said. ndeed, government mter- v ntion Into science has a •chilling effect" on a mnn- ber of d1sclplln , Fn dman Id ~imtl. chiding he audi- nce of lawyers, Friedman said It Is "schizophrenic" that the courts - as well as Intel! ctuals - often sepa- rat political and cultural freedom from commercial freedom. EDOMS ED Flaymg such "arbitrary distmct1ons between certain kmds of speech," Friedman declared, "You can't have political freedom without a large measure of economic fr dom," - a pomt he h s m d many times m the past, including in · 1962 book, "Capitalism and Fr dom." Both in his speech and at th press conference, Fried- man cited zoning and land u I g1slatlon as den als of economic freedom. Legal ar- gum nts justifying ch in- cursions on the grounds of ( fontlnued on B-4, Col. 1) Ii' )'

, VI G BO 'D At thl' mommg dedication, Fri dman Id that business Xl'cutlves art" d nwd fr speech m veral ways. For lnstanc he said the Treas- .iry's pnnted m ssages urg mg peop!P to buy l S. sav- irgs bonds are "mtsl~adm~ and inaccurate adv rtistng b cau e they make false promis they offer eco- !1omtc curity to the buyer but 1r fact wh n the bond

The California Supreme Court sits in a rare session away from Sacramento for the dedication of the University of San Diego Law School's new Joseph P.

Grace Sr. Courtroom facility. From left, Associate Justices Wiley W. Manuel, William P Clark Jr., Mathew 0. Tobriner, Chief Justice Rose Elizabeth

Bird, Stanley Mosk, Frank K. Richardson and Frank C. Newman. The court heard arguments in tl)ree cases. USD courtroom dedicated, Page S:.l.

SESSION INAUGURATES USD FACILITY Supreme Court Hears Billboard Case By MITCH HIMAKA

courtroom," Chief Justice Rose Elizabeth Bird said in openrng the session at precisely 1:30 p.m., but from then on it was strictly busi- ness. Deputy City Atty C. Alan Sumption argued that the city ordinance at issue was based partly on the traffic hazard problems posed by the billboards. "It is the city's contention

that the signs create a poten- tial traffic hazard," Sump- tion said. "The fact remains that (the billboards) are something that are created to get attention." Sumption argued that the city ordinance did not totally· prohibit all signs, pointing out that on-site business signs are not banned. Attorney Theodore Olson.

representing the billboard firm, argued the ordinance was a violation of the First Amendment right of free speech. Attorney John Bouma, also representing the indus- try, argued the 5th Am d- ment's due-proces element was c1rcumvented, claiming the City Council exceeded its police powers by enacting the ordinance.

Stoff Writer, The Son Dlevo Union The issue of whether the Citv of San Diego can ban billboards within the city limits was argued before the state Supreme Court here yesterday. In a rare session away from its Sacramento home base, the entire court heard final arguments in the case that could make or break the bJIPJoard industry. Court officlals predicted that a decision could be at least three months away The billboard case - Metromedia nc vs..the City of San Diego - was one of three cases heard by the court in the special session, part of a program dedicating the University of San Diego Law School's new Joseph P. Grace Sr. Courtroom facili- ty. "The court is especially pleased to be here for the inauguration of the Universi- ty of San Diego's law school

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LIKE OLD DAYS Judge

Doubles As Waitress A flustered Un ver ity of San Diego law student, one of many serving as hosts during the new courtroom dedication on campus yes- terday, looked around dur- ing the noon luncheon recep- tion and approached Artie G. Henderson. Could she, he asked, ar- range to get him two salads? They were for Chief Justice Rose Elizabeth Bird or the California• Supreme Court, who was dining elsewhere, he explained Sure she could, Henderson aid going into the kltch n nd emerging With two sal- ads only to fmd the student one So Henderson delivered thPm herself. "Il's not the first time I've done waltre s work," she chuckled, recalling the days hen she worked her way through law school. "One thing, got better ·ps then, too," added Hen- derson, a Municipal Court udge here

Son Diego, Tuesdoy, November 8, 1977

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