European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 10, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes january 1978 court rulings justices refuse of hear Case challenging income fax Rafes married couples pay from press dispatches Washington the supreme court monday refused to hear an Appeal challenging the income tax rates the Federal government imposes on mar Ritj Persona filing joint the justices turned Down without com ment the Appeal of two Indiana married couples who contended that the tax Rales Are unconstitutional because when both husband and wife have significant income they must pay More taxes Chan single per sons with identical in urging the court to reject the government lawyers said disparities in lax liability Are a marriage Neutral income tax is in the Justice department adding that while the governments method of taxing income is not perfect it is William and Wanda barter and Ralph and Pauline Blair of new sued the government Over their taxes for the first year he tax deform act of 1969 became they said that under the new Law they were paying More taxes under their respective joint returns than they would have to pay if each spouse were to file separately As a single they charged the tax Law therefore in fringed on their fundamental right to be married because it placed an undue Burden on that the barters combined income for 1b71 was almost they paid in Federal income i lad each spouse been allowed la flip As an unmarried their combined taxes would have been do not have a constitutional right to most favored tax in other action the court turned Down an Appeal by judges who charge Congress unconstitutionally deprived them of a pay raise in granted greyhound lines a hear ing on its fight against paying 114 million in antitrust damages to a Small West coast bus company it allegedly tried to destroy As a to review a decision that Arlington a while Chicago May have violated the Law even though paid si79 More the whose income totalled a bit Mere than and who paid in would have paid less had they filed As single their unsuccessful before a Federal trial court and the 7th circuit court of contended that the tax disadvantage for married couples occurs at All Levels of taxable income Over the disadvantage grows larger As the incomes of both spouses reach parity and cannot be avoided by filing separate married re the suit government lawyers said that before the is Lei tax single persons faced substantially higher tax burdens than married the 1948 tax Laws passed by Congress were amended in Lite lawyers so that a single person will never be required to pay a lax that would exceed by More than 20 percent he Lux that a mar ried couple would pay on the same the government told the court to be the present lax system still contains some but Given the inherent complexity of the the taxing scheme Congress adopted in 1mb and re fined in while not nevertheless satisfies the requirements of due process and equal married government lawyers not the Constitution in refusing to redone for racially mixed the Case now goes Back to District court in Chica a hearing to two women who have been challenging Liberty Mutual insurance exclusion of pregnancy from its employee disability let stand a decision in a new York Case that a College degree Job requirement which excludes percent of the Black adult population does not Lay the foundation for a race discrimination denied review to several challenges to court gag and agreed to review Trie Federal common Callon com missions Rule against broadcast of seven dirty words at times when children might be asked Pennsylvania highest court to clarify a decision permitting criminal trial at the request of a to automatically bar the Public and press from pretrial hearings and Cut off All information about those let stand a ruling that the Miller brewing May not appropriate the words Lite or Light for exclusive use As a trademark name for its Low calorie on stage in new York after a Mance As the Star of Shaws Saint Redgrave the sword in the cake extends a sword to Cul a Joan of arc birthday Frances tap heroine was barn s6s years in january presenting the birthday cake is Theodore who is the artistic director of Ibe a photo pitted against air defense radar cruise missile subjected to tests Washington Puli the Suphi Sll rated cruise a pilotless Al de signed to Cany nuclear warheads to Distant was tested Over the week end against air defense the de sense department said far Security spokesmen declined to say whether the missile was de elected on the radar the department said Only that an 15 Foo Long Tomahawk cruise missile was fired from a Navy As attack plane Satur Day at Nellis air Force nov and was flown against an unidentified Type of radar Brennum getting treatment for cancer of a vocal Cord Washington apr supreme court Justice William Brennan the senior member of the nations highest has a cancerous tumor on a vocal a court spokesman said was not on the Bench when the court met monday after a four week Barrett the courts said Brennan is not expected to participate in those cases the court will hear or consider for the next 10 a Biopsy of a m Laringo sepoy revealed a Small squamous Ceil carcinoma a malignant tumor of the left vocal Mcgunia said in a written state Cobalt radiation treatment began 22 and is Mcglum said that Brennan has not been hospitalized but is travelling from his Washington Home to a nearby Hospital for Mcgurn quoted Brennan doctors As saying the Justice is doing Well and that full recovery in cure is Brennan and Justice Thurgood Marshall compose the courts Liberal Brennan has been a member of the court since 1957 he served As a new Jersey supreme court Justice before being nominated to his present Post by president Dwight since president Carter decided against production of a Fleet of by the cruise missile has been Given top priority in the administrations strategic weapons saturdays test was the first of six scheduled this All designed to give the Pentagon some idea of now Well the cruise might perform against soviet air there have been allegations the weapon might prove vulnerable to the massive soviet defense system future tests will be aimed at determining whether present air defense sys tems would be Able to shoot Down cruise Pentagon source said the tests will pit the cruise against the army Hawk am aircraft missile and the Phoe Nix missile system carried by Navy Fth fighters the cruise is a pilotless Jet plane with a highly accurate guidance system based on a computer map of terrain in route to us Pentagon sources said the Tomahawk is expected to produce the same image on radar screens As would be made by an object he Stic of a making it difficult for russian defences to pinpoint cruise missiles armed with nuclear War Heads Are a new development in strategic warfare and one that has figured Neuy in Salt negotiations Russia the who Are behind the u s in cruise missile have insisted on limiting the cruise Range to about 1mo sources have estimated the soviet would have to spend billion on a crash program to develop an defense against he which would be launched from outside russian Borders by b52s or jumbo the administration Hopes to have limited production capability of cruise Miskill Raas Early As but it will be several years later before they Are available in Large Tanker with fuel Oil runs aground in Bay a ton Tanker loaded with Home heating Oil went aground monday in Narraganse Bay near hog Island Light during an in tense the vessel carried a Crew of there was no visible Hull damage or the coast guard Oil flotation booms were placed around the Tanker is a precautionary a coast guard spokesman said the an american was beaded for a fuel pier in Tiverton when the ground ing the Tanker was carrying 000 tons of 2 fuel Oil commercial tugs were called rum Providence amid plans to lighten the Tanker by unloading some of its cargo be coast guard spokesman said it i undetermined whether the grounding was