The Michigan Daily-Wednesday, May 27, 1981-Page 11
Supreme Court
rules on right
to speedy trial
From AP and UPI
WASHINGTON - Stepping into the
widely publicized 1970 mass murder of
the family of Green Beret doctor Jef-
frey MacDonald, the Supreme Court
announced yesterday it will decide
when the right to a speedy trial is
triggered.
The court's action blocked freedom
for MacDonald, whose August 1979 con-
viction for the stabbing deaths of his
pregnant wife and two daughters was
reversed by a federal appeals court.
THE APPEALS panel said the near-
decade delay between the murders and
the trial violated the Constitution's
guarantee of a speedy trial.
Also yesterday, the high court struck
down as unconstitutional Louisiana's
tax on natural gas piped through the
state - a levy ultimately paid by con-
sumers in other states. Louisiana now
will have to return $580 million, plus six
percent interest, collected since the tax
began in April1979.
And, in a boost for federal antitrust
laws, the court ruled unanimously in
another case that a corporation found
guilty of anti-competitive conduct can-
not get other companies to share the
financial penalties.
IN STILL other action yesterday, the
court:
" In a case involving Three Mile
Island, agreed to consider whether the
Nuclear Regulatory Commission must
hold a public hearing before modifying
a nuclear plant's operating license.
* Over a heated dissent by Justice
William Brennan, left intact a ruling
that allows public school officials to
search students for illicit drugs, even
with the aid of trained dogs.
* Ruled unanimously that thousands
of parochial school employees are not
covered by state unemployment benefit
programs.
* Ruled 7-2 a state may favor local
insurance companies by levying a
higher tax against out-of-state insurers.
* Splitting 5-4, held a person fired
from his job need not exhaust all union
remedies before filing suit to challenge
Ao official singing AP Photo
Folk singer Joan Baez relaxes between flights at Miami's International Air-
port after arriving in Miami from Brazil. Baez said she was not allowed to
officially sing in several countries, including Brazil.
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Top links
to secret
lodge fells
Italy govt.
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parliament for the start of consultations
aimed at forming Italy's 41st postwar
government.
BUT PERTINI was expected to give
Italy's largest party, the Christian
Democrats, the first chance to try to
-form a cabinet.
"Lodge P-2 is a secret sect that has
combined business and politics with the
intention of destroying the con-
stitutional order of the country and of
transforming the parliamentary
system into a presidential system,"
magistrates said in a report to Forlanii.
Justice Minister Adolfo Sarti
resigned Saturday after documents
seized from the home of the lodge's
fugitive "grand master" alleged Sarti
had applied for membership. Sarti
denied he had sought to join but said the
"slanderous campaign" against him
made it impossible for him to keep his
post.
A parliamentary committee in-
vestigating the case has alleged that
the lodge was involved in a variety of
scandals, including bribe payments and
tax evasion in the oil industry and a far-
reaching plot to set up an authoritarian
regime in Italy.
The collapse of the government sent
stock prices tumbling on the Milan
stock exchange, Italy's largest. The
share index fell four percent despite in-
terventionby state banks.
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