News Scrapbook 1986

San Qiego. Cal if. Union (Circ. D 217,324) (Ctr<;. S. 339, 788)

Del Mar, CA (San Diego Co .) Del Mar Surfcomber (Cir. 2xW. 1,845) JAN 11 1986

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Admiral /''\'1 takes Law Center helm The Uni_yersity of San Diego's Law Center has hired 1!.s first administra- tor. He is David Lauth of El Cajon, a retired Coast Guard admiral. ''As the Law Center gradually has grown and become involved in morP "The center was formed to com- bine the activities of the County Bar Association and the USD law school faculty to help the legal profession be more responsive to the needs of the community," he said. "The idea is to set up projects, see if they work, and then turn them over to the com- munity to run on a permanent basis." One of the center's most successful projects has been Community Media- tion centers in Golden Hill and in the Mira Mesa/Scripps Ranch area. The centers are staffed by volunteers trained by USD law school faculty and members of the San Diego Coun- ty Bar Association. The mediation centers settle neighborhood problems such as landlord/tenant disputes and domes- tic disagreements without resorting to the courtroom. "It's an age-old concept, newly dis- covered," Lauth said. "It's similar to ways people used to settle their prob- lems in the old neighborhoods." Resolutions are reached in 89 per- cent of all cases, he added. The Law Center also sponsors an Alternative to Litigation program to help reso!ve commercial disputes that would otherwise go to court. The program's panel is made up of re- tired judges who use their legal expe- rience in rendering non-binding deci- sions. Although the program charges a fee, it is much lower than the ex- pense of a lengthy court battle. "I think in most cases the people involved agree with the rulings," Lauth said. "It gives them a pretty fair idea of what to expect if they went to court." One of the center's most recent projects is called "Judicial Telecon- ferencing," in which pretrial motions r~ San Diego Spotlight projects, the board of directors felt they needed an administrator," Lauth said.

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to rent and install AT&T ComKey equipment in courts in the county. Simmons said an additional $5,000 will be necessary to finish the telephone experiment. San Diego County's telecommuni- cations project will follow a trend begun years ago in San Diego Muni- cipal Court and in courts around the country. Criminal court arraignments for jailed suspects charged with mis- demeanors have been conducted daily via video camera for several years in San Diego Municipal Court and for more than 10 years in the city of Las Vegas Municipal Court. In both courts, a person charged with a misdemeanor offense can plead guilty or not guilty without leaving the jail after his rights and charges ha e been recited. The system saves time and prison- er transportation costs and cuts se- curity risks, said Leslie Doak, acting chief of court operations in Las Vegas. Teleconferencing also has been used for pretrial civil conferences in the U.S. District Court in San Fran- cisco at least once a week for more than five years, according to court secretary Opal Madaris. And over the last month in the fed- eral court in San Diego, U.S. Magis- trate Edward Infante said, the opera- tion has been smooth. One civil case, involving a $12,000 settlement, was wrapped up last week during a telephone conference among Infante and lawyers in La J olla and Los Angeles. The magis- trate said it took 15 minutes and saved money and travel time. "Those are the kinds of cases that really cry out for saving costs," In- fante said. "If you have a multimil- lion-dollar lawsuit, it's a different story." While teleconferencing and video- conferencing may play a key role in the judicial system in the future, ad- vocates of the system agree that it will take time for lawyers and judges to adjust.

Federal and state courts in San Diego County are gearing up to do business over the telephone as part of an experiment to save lawyers' time and clients' money. The teleconferencing project, sponsored by the University of San Qjego and the San Diego County Bar Association, began Dec. 10 in U.S. District Court. It will start in Superi- or Court downtown this week and in North County Jan. 27. Judges participating in the experi- ment conduct routine court proceed- ings and settlement conferences by telephone, eliminating the need for personal appearances by lawyers and their clients. Once the telephone project is con- cluded in May, the courts may-exper- iment with video cameras, which will enable lawyers to make court appearances from their offices or from video centers. USD law professor Robert Sim- mons, who proposed the project through the campus-based San Diego Law Center, said he is certain telecommunications in judicial sys- tems will save time and money. Studies have shown that lawyers in San Diego County charge clients an average of $110 per hour, Simmons said. Although a court appearance may take only 15 or 20 minutes, Sim- mons estimates that the average time spent on a pretrial hearing, in- cluding travel, parking, waiting in the courtroom and the appearance itself, is 1 ½ hours - all time gener- ally billed to a client. Teleconferencing "will benefit cli- ents and attorneys by saving them time and it will be efficient for judg- es," Simmons said. The law professor proposed the project after an American Bar Asso- ciation study in 1985 recommended that teleconferencing be used in courts across the country. About $18,000 has been donated to the law center - established to bene- fit consumers and promote research a .m.; Spanish 2, Thursdays from 9 a.m. to 11 a .m.; Spanish 3 and 4, Wednesdays from 9 a .m. to 11 a.m . Evening classes are also scheduled, in the library at Stella Maris Academy, on the southeastern corner of Herschel Avenue and Kline Street. Spanish 1 will be offered Tuesdays from 7 p .m. to 9 p .m. Spanish 2 is set for / Mondays from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., Spanish 3 and 4 will get underway Wednesdays from 7 p.rn. to 9 p.m. Fees are $2.50 per hour with six students. Students should resistr in the classroom. the second ses- sion will start April 14. For more information call 459-7515.

Dr. James Moriarity will tell the Del Mar Historical Society about the ruins of Casa del Mar. Historical Society to hear about local archaeological dig

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David Lauth can be made over the telephone. The i program is being tried in three Supe- rior Court departments and in the U.S. District Court downtown. ''The teleconferencing program is a time and money saver for the cli- ent," Lauth said. "There's less wait- ing and no travel time involved. "If it proves worthwhile, we may try to use video equipment. Similar programs have been tried successful- ly elsewhere. A recent Bar Associa- tion study showed a savings of $200 per client per motion." Although he is not an attorney, Lauth worked with attorneys during his 31-year Coast Guard career. He served as Coast Guard district commander in Hawaii during the two years before his retirement in 1980, and oversaw the work of eight staff attorneys. Lauth also spent three years in charge of the Coast Guard Boating Safety Project in Washington, D.C., where he worked with staff attorneys examining the legal aspects of boating. "Lawyers are an important part of civilization," Lauth said. "One of the things we want to get across to the public through many of the projects we do is that it's easier to stay out of trouble than to get out of trouble." - By Gina Cioffi /

The master of archaeological digs in San Diego County, Dr. James Moriarity, Will be in Del Mar Wednesday to tell members of the Del Mar His- torical Society what they found at their recent dig.- --. At the newly formed society s first general membership meeting, members will be reliving a day last July when they probed the long-buried rums of Casa del '\tar at the foot of 10th Street. With his expertise in the field , l\foriarity will examine the artifacts found on the site. and will attempt to identify them and their use in the hotel a century ago. Construction started on the hotel in 1885. and it was opened to the public Aug.24. 1886. only to be consumed by fire on Jan. 17, 1890. The site was almost turned into a hi torical park in 1979, but recently private homes were built at the loca- tion It was prior to excavation for one of the homes that society members came in on hands and

knees to dig for buried treasure. T he bottles, door knobs and locks, pieces of china, silver- ware, bits of metal and hundreds of square na ils (which will be given as souvenirs to those who attend the meeting) that were found became the property of the society. Moriarity is professor of history and archaeol- ogy at the University ofSan Diego. He has led two digs in this are'a - one a recent probe on the site at Del Mar Bluffs Preserve where Del Mar Man was found in 1929, which Moriarity found to be 6,000 years old. and the other on the site of Pointe Del Mar where there was a house as early as 1872. He also conducted digs at Mission San. Diego D~1,lc~la , the_Pre s i_dio and Ballast Point. Wedn~~ay s meeting will take place at Mira- Cos ta De~[ar Shores Center. The meeting -will start at 7:30 p.m. but doors will open at-7 for a social hour and a chance to view the society's ·'dig·• findings. Charter memberships, at $15 per family. close that night. A permanent board will be selected.

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:__ro_"_18_s_s_ __;__~-----------';,&;.;, ot Diego Il!Cf!iyed ~ecently when $25,000 was contributed to complete construction of the Founders Chapel pipe organ. Jerry Witt, president of the San Diego chapter of the National Pastoral Musicians Association. made the contribution. The money will be used to add three ranks of pipes to the chapel organ. The pipes, which are expected to be in place by early 1987, were ordered from the Netherlands. According to those in charge of the program, the installation is expected to be a long and complicated process. As a resuJt of this project, the quality of music produced by the organ will be enhanced. The l_itur?ical music program at USD is believEld to be the only one of its kmd m the Western United States. For more information. contact John Nunes at 260-4682.

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~nish classes will be o~ m La Jolla staning Feb~ ~- ding April 11 (with (/fie\ week recess). Conversational Spanish classes for adults wit; be taught by Carlos G. Herrera at Casa De Manana, 849 Coast Blvd., La Jolla. f:Ierr~ra, who graduated at the University o~ n Diego, has more . than 2~ years of teaching experience with the San Diego Community Colleges. These classes will be offered on the following days: Spanish l (continuation), on Mondays from 9 a .m. to 11 a.m.; Spanish I, Tuesdays from 9 a.m. to J 1

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