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San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.) Daily Transcrirt (Cir. D. 7,415 'f 1 8 1988

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Marketing Administrators. Tamara Fogg (University of San Diego Law School) is a prin, cipal with Ferris, Brennan & Brit- ton. Leonardo Radornile (Universi- ty of Chicago) is a director of the Permanent Portfolio Fund, a regis- tered investment company. USD law professor Herbert Lazerow has been elected to the American Law Institute, 11 75• year-old organization which has a major voice in developing Ameri• can law. Roger Nielsen and Chet Teklinski are of counsel to Mulvaney & Kahan, which has moved to the First National Bank Building, 401 West A St.. 17th Floor. James P. McGowan Jr. mams a r 1dent cou n. l in the La Jolla office. Datebook: May 217 Julia Garwood talks about the legal and emotional aspects of divorce from 10:30 a m, to l p.m. at the Center for Women's Studies and Services, 2467 E St., downtown. May 25: South Bar Bay Assn. luncheon at Seafood Broiler, 342 F St., Chula Vista; Speaker, Steve Thunberg, court administrator. June 1: Lawyers for Literacv, 5:30 pm., Bar Assn. offices. Call Judy Hamilton al 236-1142 to confirm attendance Scenes: The red Toyota with the license plate LM Law. The attor- ney noted that EC Law was al- ready taken. From last Saturday's s••minar on Privacy, Politic,; and the Press at Cal Western Law School, Tran- script staffer Todd Davis reports the following: • On the impact of the courts on First Amendment liberties, Supe- rior Court Judge Richard Huff- man said the "most we can do is close a hearing, and thereby limit the press' access lo information. But once they have it, we cant outright order J,hem not to print il. n • On misrepresentation to get information, L.A. Time,; reporter Ralph Frammolino said he "wouldn't wear a (doctor'sl smock, but i would try to get rnto a place I by wearing my usual clothes and acting like I have business there." • On the Society of Professional Journalists/Sigma Delta Chi Code of Ethics, Union City Editor Rick Levinson: "SOX is a professional organization, but that's not to say all papers subscribe to the SOX Code of Ethics. Many papers don't work according to that code." / * * * ,c,.ntmued on Page 4A} iC~ntmuedkJi~e 3A~

and what effect color and age of the litigants had on the outcome of a case. Some 90 questions which were not answered because of time were Pach handled perwnally by a Judge. Quesllons were chosen by the acramento Human Rights Com- mission and the League of Women Voters. Some 25 interpreters were on hand, along with uniformed as wPll as plainclothed police - which 1s "partofpubhc life." "This 1s obviously a new con- cept," said Loncke, one which came from the community forums spon• sored by two , acramento newspa• pers, the Bee and Union. Loncke ongmally talked about ,t with his "mentor," Supenor Court Judge Roger W rren, and last Septem- ber went to the CJA's Public In- formation Committee, which wholeheartedly endorsed it. On May 4 a similar version was put on by a Sacramento coun• c,imembt•r which included Judges ,rnd allrucll'd 200 persons. The sess10n was taped for cable, some- thing Loncke called "really impor- t.ml." Last month he came to the meet- ing of the Public Information Committee at the Oakland Airport <111d thi~ Saturday addresses CJA's hoard in Santa Barbara. " ft s not public relations. It's !'ducation," he emphasized. 'I don't want a ghb thing like packai:ingjudges for PR reasons." What he's interested in is a "viable, ·trong judiciary that has public confidence." olution to the judicial image problem? "Our best shot 1s lo do th 111gs Ii kc the Sacramento court d,d and answer any question·," said Roderic Duncan, chair of the Public Information Committee. On the Move: Regina Petty of Gray, Cary, Ames & Frye has no oppos,t1on to succeed Deputy D1s- Lnct Attorney Bonnie Dumanis on the C11iiforma Young Lawyers A oc1at1on Board of D1recton Petty wa quoted as saying durin a recent Lawyers Club semim that she personally observed ci fighting among women lawyer Not so, she says. What she said w; that "males have a tendency characterize disputes betwe, women attorneys as a cat fight." Carol Scott, also at Gray, Ca has been elected a member of t 1,98,8-1989 Board of Directors of1 National Association of Law Fi-

Solutions'/ "We have to work on it," said Baffa, who was one year behind C11l1forn111 Supremt• Court Chief ,Jusl1c Makolm Lucas at the Univt•r 1ty ot l:i<,ulht•rn Cai1forn1a Law School und ft·els that Lucus hns helped rP~tore the image of judg 11 "We have to gel in th · c·omrnun1ty " Om• of the most uccessful pro- grnm · which lht• C,JA nnd its 1'11hi1c lnformul1on Committee ponsor with $:l5,000 funding from G,mnetl is the Media Con• ftm•nn· on California Courts, ht•ld uv1,i y other year i,t the U11iversity of al,forniu al Berkeley On .Jun1• 17 nnd 18 new &nd ex-

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value. "By its wording Congress' intent was clear," Levenson said. "By 'im- port, export, transport and store' you're talking about large amounts of controlled substances. You don't import or store residue, and if Con- gress meant possession it would have said that." Levenson said pre ent procedure requires the person who loses prop• erty to file a petition w1thm 30 days or the federal government owns it. "So not only do you have a misuse of the statue t, t a clear lack of du1:: process righls " Norman Abrams, a profc or who teaches federal crim,nal law at UCLA, said Customs ha se zed cars, airplanes and hoats for many years under civil forfeiture tatutes that now contain 'very hr oad language" which can be ' mt rpreted very broadly." Abrams added, however, "What troubles us in these cases is that these individuals are not necessarily engaged in any commercial ven- tures. They may have smoked a bit of marijuana and somehow it seems disproportionate to eize the valu- able car or boat because of the trace of a manjuana cigarette or a small

somene's flo er bed they'd call the animl a criminal and hang it. It's almot a sense of personalizing the ship >r car, or treating it as some- thin1 bad." Aexander said that the modern rathnale is "clearly deterrence," andadded "my sense is that this has be61 litigated m the past and so far it k constitutional." 3arbara Levenson, who chairs the le:al panel of the American Civil Lberties Union in Miami, argued tie law is flatly illegal. "The tatute they're working lOder was never meant to be used ·he way it is being used," Levenson said. "Originally (the statutes) were passed for governmental bodies to take property that was very inex- pensive and so they would not have to go through court hearings that would expend tax dollars to keep the property." According to Levenson, the stat- utes were later revised to cover property under $100 and until re- cently were used that way. In 1984 Congress added a clau e allowing the seizure of any convey- ance used to export, import, trans- port or store controlled substances,

MOTHER'S PLACE: When Mother Teresa comes in to talk at USD on Tuesday, she'll go house bunting. She's looking for a place to accommodate 30 broth- ers from the Missionaries of Charity, the order she founded. The men will work in Tijuana, where Mother Teresa now has only four nuns helping the poor.

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11.,;t problt•rn A formpr n·pnrkr him· •If, Dun• c·1n ,1dvoc11tes Jud.,;cs getting to knnw tht• m•·Urnaltst will t•mh;irras..q you, and "what (·ornt~s out Hi wrong-. · "WP huv(• to work as nu.· s1onnri1•s 1n our own fraternity," aid Duncan . As f.ir us do111g honwtlu n1a: posi live, McDonald said that ,Jud1a:c ,John Sirico "du! more for the Jud11·1al 1mu1:1• thnn anynne elsp this,· ·11tury," hy h1,Jud1cial role 111 th,• Watngute "° •,tndal • • • Municipal Court Junge Barry Lonck of S· cramento has no qualms about talking lo lht> press, but "lht- rrwdiu un• truly 111terested in news, not educut,on ' So ho"' do you d1•al directly with th,. genf'r I puhltc, m ny of who ,.,... "myst1fi1•d by th(• court pro- cess. " Loncke'~ solution was simple. Hold a free public forum where nyone c 111 come out and question Judges. At first somp S·1crumento judg gret•tcd th1· ideu with "trcpida- t10n," and there was "some kep- ltc,sm but trey were willing to see what happ n d " 1'.:nthusi sm of the skeptics b(•gan to pick up a the first forum 111 ~'ebruary approached. And since then the reaction has been over- whelmingly positive. California Judg(•s Assoc1ahon President Gene McDonald called it "wildly succei;sful." Said Loncke: It was the best morale boost for the Judge~." The Feb. 10 forum attracted a standing.room-only crowd of about 575 people, from bikers to teachers, laborers to n11nisters. One father came with h,s daughter and "had the greatest lime." From 7 lo 9:45 p.m. (it was schedul d to end at 9), 21 judges fielded questions on a wide range of topics, including whether they believe juries wen• always right,

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Irene Palmer is honored by the University of San Diego d~ . .

Tierrasanta resident Irene Sabelberg Palmer was honored at a dinner held for her Saturday, May 7th, by the University of San Diego for her 12 years of service as Dean of the Philip Y. Hahn School of Nursing. Sr. Sally Furay, vice president and provost, presented Palmer with a Dean Emeritus Certificate. Establishment of the Irene Sabelberg Palmer Sch?la~ship was announced at the dinner. Each year, begmnmg next fall, three nursing students - one from the bachelor's degree program, one from the master's program and one from the doctoral program - will be named "Palmer Scholars." The scholarships awarded will be based on academic excellence. P_al_mer was founding dean of the nursing school, arr1vmg at USD in 1975. Four years later, through her own fundraising efforts, the $1.4 million Muriel Marsh/Philip Y. Hahn School of Nursing building was dedicated, Palmer established a graduate nursing program in 1977 and a doctoral program in 1984. She resigned last year as dean, but remains as a faculty member. In the fall, she switches from full-time t.o part-time teaching as part of her phased retirement plan. "We have such a high caliber of students, it's a pleasure and an honor working with them," Palmer said. Before joining USD, Palmer was dean and professor at Bost.on University's nursing school. Earlier positions include: Assistant Dean and Associate Professor, University of Colorado School of Nursing; Associate Chief, Nursing Service for Research, Veteran's Administration Hospital, San Francisco; Captain, Army Nurse Corps, instructor, Medical Field Service Schools, Letterman Army and Walter Reed Hospitals. Palmer has lived in Tierrasanta for the past 8 years.

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Continued From A-6 -Z.f/ 55" "The disease should not make us bitter, should not make us angry, sh01Jd not make us resentful," she told several dozen AIDS patients and volunteer workers. She said AIDS can bring people closer to God, their families and their friends. "It 1s just a disease, like any other disease," Mother Teresa said. AIDS patients, she said, deserve the same "tender love, compassion and care" as any other terminal patients. Mother Teresa presented each patient at the center with a kiss and a small

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'miracle medal" inscribed with a prayer. Some regard Mother Teresa as a saint. "I think she is," Figueredo said.

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!Business liriefs 7 New NAIOP president ~r7.) B?mta c id nt Jeff Phair has recently been elected the I988 president of the San Diego chapter of the National A . . of Industrial nd Office Park . ss01cauon Phair i pre,ident of The Phair C . e. rare development firm based in th~mfoauntyh, BaafullA•serv1~e reafl h I V Ph , . y. native o u a . ista,. air attended Hilltop High School and earned a degre in bu me s fro°: Cali~ornia We tern University. He also hol~ !11aster degree in busine,s admini tration from National University and a_ law degree from the Universit of San D' I he 1:'IAIOP • a profe. sional organtLat1on comm11te~ t~ ~~ononuc growth through the d velopment of industrial a d f flee parks, promoting jobs and commerce n ° · _The San Diego chapter has I .SO 'members, includin d~velopers, lenders, archilect. ' engineers, land planners, con~ rr,1cto1s and other re:11 estate development support companies. r:-. --------------~-~~

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