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Businessmen seeking change
Texas high court under fire
Associated Press
DALLAS — A business leaders’
group that claims the Texas Su
preme Court has benefitted people
who sue companies is spearheading
a drive to raise money for next year’s
elections in an attempt to change the
court’s makeup.
The group’s leaders said two of
four contested court races in 1986
could be the costliest ever and more
important than the gubernatorial
election to the business community
because of skyrocketing insurance
premiums.
Committee leaders said that when
they begin collecting money, they
can easily raise SI million each for
contested races, the Dallas Times
Herald reported Sunday.
The group also says its mem
bership, which will be announced af
ter a meeting next month, will in
clude some of the state’s most
powerful lobbyists and wealthiest
companies, drawing key leaders
from the insurance, banking, oil,
trucking, health and construction
fields.
Leaders want to halt a philosoph
ical shift on the court that, critics say,
is greatly expanding the circum
stances under which injured people
may sue for damages.
They also say the court is making
it harder to afford or even find in
surance protection from lawsuits. In
another move, 150 business leaders
in Austin planned to lobby the Legis
lature for protection from damage
awards.
One lobbyist told the Dallas Times
Herald he predicts that during the
1987 legislative session, the reform
effort will be the most important is
sue next to the state budget.
Larry Thompson, an attorney
who is heading the group in Hous
ton called the Texas Supreme Court
Justice Committee said,“There is a
direct relationship between what the
Texas Supreme Court is doing and
what is happening to . . . insurance
premiums,” he said.
“We are only concerned with put
ting responsible people on the Su
preme Court. We want impartial
people; judges who won’t be be
holden to anybody.”
Eight of the nine members of
Texas’ highest civil appeals court
have been elected since 1978. Most
received contributions from mem
bers of the Texas Trial Lawyers As
sociation, the group of attorneys
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Monday
iN'S CHORUS; will have opt
als Oct. 28,30 and Nov. i at } 0 aao. in the M$C Lc
MESQUITE HOMETOWN CLUB: will meet for happy Dour .
at 5:30 p.m. at Interurban restaurant. Bring dues please.
FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: will meet at
7:15 p.m. outside of 145 M$€ to support the lady Ags in >;
volleyball.
ASSOCIATION OF SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT: will have a
Halloween candy sale in die MSC lobby.
TEXAS A&M JUDO: will meet at 7 p.m. in 26
White. No experience necessary.
rbook picture at 6:301>.m. in MSC Lobby.
GkBY CLUB: practices TucsTnuirs. at 5:30
ipns Field behind the polo fteld-
■■ JKm . AND'IMAGE BY DESIGN: will have a
fashion seminar at 8:30 10 Rudder. •.,/ A- - : A;.;
JH J—-Ejib&lk open for handball singles, ptitt
putt, cross country Read. •
-- r I mr HOMETOWN CLUB: will meet at
; Rudder.
TAMU
Tuesday
.. IONALJOURNALISTS: is meeting:;
ed McDonald.
JMjM^t at 7 p.nu in.410 Rudder,
be||ollected/i
AGGIE DEMOCRATS; will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 302 Rudder
for a brief meeting followed by a reception*; -
ALPHA Pi MVi wil meetaL? p.in. in 342 Zachry.
^SIRLOIN CLUB: will meet at 5:30 p.m. on the
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jORITY FOR CLEMENTS: will meet at
Judder.
. entries dose for badminton doubles at 6
■ a. in 159 Read,
U PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: will
meet at 7:1 5 p.m. in 404 Rudder for oltker elec tions
who sue corporations, professionals
and insurance companies for dam
ages and get to collect a third or
more of the awards, the Times
Herald said.
Next year, Justices Robert M.
Campbell, James P. Wallace, Raul A.
Gonzalez and Sears McGee will be
up for re-election.
Reform movement leaders con
tend the court has become more lib
eral in recent years, mostly to the
benefit of plaintiffs. It has increas
ingly upheld sizable damage awards
issued in lower courts and has over
turned longstanding legal principles
and decades-old statutes, they said.
“The Texas Supreme Court has
handed down more and more deci
sions extremely favorable to plain
tiffs’ lawyers,” Thompson said. “No
question about it. It has become a
legislative body rather than a court.”
Chief Justice John L. Hill would
not respond to Thompson’s claims.
“We’re calling them like we see
them,” said Hill. “We’re applying the
law. I don’t comment on cases. They
speak for themselves.”
Supreme Court Justice C.L. Ray
said the court in some cases has
“brought the law into the 20th Cen
tury.”
Dorm students
protected from
illegal search
(continued from page 1)
in a student’s room, even if that’s not
why they’re there, they can take it.
The resident advisers must leave a
receipt for what they’ve taken and
draw a sketch showing where the
items were before the resident advis
ers took them.
Koldus says although a resident
adviser may confiscate the evidence
against the student, whether the evi
dence will be allowed in the case
against that student is decided by a
court of law.
Bob Wiatt, director of security
and traffic, says the University Police
must have either a search warrant or
a consentual release signed by the
student before they can enter a
room.
The consentual release allows stu
dents to give their consent to having
their room searched, Wiatt says.
When a consentual release is used,
the police don’t have to specify what
they are looking for, he says.
A search warrant restricts the po
lice to specifying what they are
looking for, Wiatt says. A search
warrant is based on the fact that a
crime has been committed. The po
lice search a room for either a
weapon used in a crime or the fruits
of a crime such as a necklace if the
crime is robbery, he says.
Koldus says that a student accused
of a crime will have to face the legal
system and the school system. The
University will follow up with disci
plinary actions that may include ex
pulsion.
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