Paqe 4/The Battalion/Wednesday August 21,1985
Citizen groups demand new election
Associated Press
BEAUMONT — Two citizens
groups in this financially troubled
tures her group had collected but
was optimistic the number was suffi
cient to force an election recall.
city say they have more than enough
signatures on petitions to force an
election to recall its mayor.
Sandra Collier of Citizens United
for Responsible Government said
she didn’t know how many signa-
Her group wants to recall Mayor
Bill Neild and Councilman Wayne
Turner.
vately-owned Schlesinger Geriatric
Center, said his clients’ union col
lected about 1,200 signatures de
manding a mayoral recall election.
wage within the city from $3.35 an
hour to $4.10 an hour. Gunman
said.
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Reuben Guttman, a legal consul
tant to striking workers at the pri-
The Service Employees Interna
tional Local 706 also collected about
1,250 names on petitions to force a
vote on increasing the minimum
It takes 960 signatures or 30 per
cent of the vote in the April election
to force a recall election and 800 sig
natures or 25 percent of the April
vote to force a wage referendum.
Unethical lawyers risking punishment
Associated Press
AUS TIN — Lawyers who unethi
cally solicit business from victims of
the Delta Flight 191 crash will be in
vestigated and punished if guilty.
not going to sit around and do noth-
the president of the State Bar of
Texas vowed Tuesday.
“In Texas, we don’t intend to turn
our heads when people are coming
in here solicitng clients. . . . We’re
ing when the code of ethics is vio
lated,” said bar president Charles L.
Smith.
Raelal discrimination;
DALLAS *— A
panel will hold hearings m
and Houston next week to exam
ine racial segregation and dis-
in Tederally subsn
the need
for low-income housing and pro
posals to demolish public hous
ing, tndudmg the 1,000-apart-
ment Allen Parkway Village
housing project in Houston, a
subcommittee spokesman said.
The House Subcommittee on
Housing and Community Devel-
lent, chaired by U.S. Rep.
try B. Gonzalez, D-San Amo-
, will hold day-long hearings
Dallas on Aug, 29 and in Hous-
t on Aug. 30.
The hearings will examine ra-
[ segregation in subsidized
U.S. Reps. Steve Bartlett, Mar
tin Frost and John Bryant are also
expected to attend the
hearing.
The hearings follow U.S. Dis
trict judge William Wayne Jus-
rice’s landmark ruHug in july
News reports following the Aug. 2
crash, which killed 134 people at the
jDallas-Fort Worth airport, noted
that some lawyers had traveled to
Dallas and talked with potential cli
ents. At least two lawyers stayed at
the same hotel that housed families
of crash victims.
In a letter to several Texas and
Florida newspapers and some na
tional news outlets, Smith said the
State Bar will take all appropriate ac
tion against Texas lawyers or those
f rom out of state who violate rules of
conduct.
“It is unethical for a lawyer to so
licit business such as the representa
tion of survivors or the families of
the victims of this tragedy,” Smith’s
letter said.
“If any citizens feel they have
been wrongfully solicited by an at
torney or have been badgered into
entering an unwanted lawsuit, they
should contact the general counsel’s
office of the State Bar of Texas. This
matter will be immediately investi
gated,” he wrote.
Smith, in a telephone interview
from his San Antonio office, said he
wrote the letter after seeing the news
reports, adding that bar officials
know “certain things are going on.
“We have statements from the
public as to some things that may
have happened there,” he said. “We
are looking into anything that may
have occurred there.”
Bar association rules prohibit offi
cials from discussing specific com
plaints or investigations.
Texas has a law prohibiting barra
try, which includes the practice of
soliciting clients. The State Bar’s
code of professional responsibility
also prohibits initiating contacts with
prospective clients.
Smith’s letter said that if an inves
tigation uncovers evidence that a
Texas-licensed lawyer has violated
the code of professional responsibil
ity, “a colmplaint will be filed with the
proper grievance committee for ac
tion deemed appropriate under the
circumstances.”
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