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United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Sup
reme Court on Tuesday sides
tepped a dispute over whether
children have a constitutional
right to enter arcades and play
video games and sent the case
back to an appeals court for
another look.
The lower court ruling struck
down a Mesquite ordinance,
which prevents unescorted chil
dren under 17 from entering
arcades and playing such video
games as “Space Invaders” and
“Pac Man.”
By a 7-2 vote, the high court
concluded the law was not un
constitutionally vague, but told
the lower court to again review
the case and decide whether fed
eral courts have authority to
consider the matter.
“The federal Constitution
does not preclude a city from
giving vague or ambiguous dire
ctions to officials who are autho
rized to make investigations and
recommendations,” Justice
John Paul Stevens wrote for the
majority.
But, he said: “No reason for
hasty decision of the constitu
tional question presented by this
case has been advanced.”
So the high court ordered the
5th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals in New Orleans to re
consider the controversy so that
the justices “can then discharge
our responsibislities free of con
cern that we may be unnecessar
ily reaching out to decide a novel
constitutional question.”
Justices Byron White and
Lewis Powell dissented from
K art of the decision, saying the
igh court should have decided
whether the age restrictions on
entering arcades is constitu
tional.
Back in 1912, the Supreme
Court upheld a local prohibition
against pool halls because offi
cials considered them to be
places of “idleness and other
evils.”
The Mesquite case provided a
modern-day twist to that age-old
dispute involving commercial
establishments that feature a
variety of coin-operated electro
nic games and pinball machines.
The case began in 1976, when
Aladdin’s Castle Inc. planned to
establish an arcade in a Mesquite
shopping mall. Aladdin’s, a sub
sidiary of Bally Manufacturing
Co., owns 100 such arcades, in
cluding three in Texas.
Aladdin’s eventually per
suaded the appeals court to
strike down the law as a violation
of a child’s right of social associa-
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AUSTIN — A San Antonio
Mexican-American leader said
Tuesday that Attorney General
Mark White has the “sentiments
of a klansman” and said if White
is the Democratic nominee for
governor, minority voters will
either vote Republican or stay at
home on election day.
Ruben Sandoval works with
the Civil Rights Litigation Cen
ter in San Antonio and said he
speaks for thousands of mem
bers of Mexican-American and
black organizations. He said
White has battled against minor
ity positions on such issues as
bilingual education, extension
of the Voting Rights Act, and
public education for illegal
aliens.
“Some of us have found the
need to revolt,” Sandoval said at
a Capitol news conference.
“We cannot forget Mark
White and his fighting us all the
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Campus Names
Dr. Robert S. Wick, profes
sor of nuclear engineering, has
been appointed visiting research
professor at the Air Force
Weapons Laboratory, Kirkland
Air Force Base in Albuquerque,
N.M., for a year starting Sep
tember 1982. This appointment
is sponsored by the Air Force
Systems Command University
Resident Research Program.
Wick will research the use of
nuclear energy in deep space
and deep underground applica
tions requiring remote sources
of electric power.
Wick came to Texas A&M
University in 1966 as a professor
of aerospace and nuclear en
gineeringafterworking 11 years
on nuclear power projects with
Westinghouse Electric Corpora
tion.
Dr. David H. Allen, assistant
professor of aerospace en
gineering, and Dr. Thomas R.
Lalk, assistant professor of
mechanical engineering, have
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