European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 13, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes january 1981 finance ruling justices Federal judges con Fention they have to Tell their holdings Washington a the supreme court monday refused to exempt Federal including the courts justices them from a financial disclosure the in told six Federal judges in the South they must publicly Dis close How much Money they have and what they the without left intact rulings that Federal judges Are among those High ranking Federal officials who must comply with the ethics in government act of the six judges who challenged the Laws application to them have not been required to file their financial disclosure statements for 1978 or 1979 until their supreme court Appeal was acted the supreme courts nine justices have made Public their disclosure statements for each the six Southern judges charged that the Law violated the separation Flowers Doc Trine and unnecessarily invaded their Priva in a Busy Day ending a four week the in other actions left intact a libel award won by former san Francisco mayor Joseph Alioto for a look Magazine article linking him to the the court refused to hear arguments by Cowles the magazines former that Alioto failed to prove that the 1969 article was substantially false or was written with actual agreed to judge the Validity of a 47 year old Law allowing Only the postal service to put things into mailboxes at Pri vate an umbrella organization for civic groups in Westchester sued the government in 1977 after being told it could not legally place pamphlets in letter boxes at private refused to review a ruling that struck Down the murder conviction of a California the California court said the conviction was invalid because he did not first consult an adult turned Down an Appeal by Yun Chi the estranged wife of comedian Redd who was attempting to gel the Cou Ples divorce proceedings moved from Las vegas to los in the Case contesting judicial financial disclosure the six Southern judges charged that the Law violated the separation Flowers doctrine and unnecessarily invaded their they argued that Public disclosure will subject judges and their families to the threat of unnecessary political and social and will increase the threat of direct physical attack by disgruntled litigants or convicted the act simply does not make any sense for the Appeal the judiciary was included in the not out of any deliberate consideration of legitimate ends and rational but simply out of misplaced Zeal in the promotion of ethics in District judge Robert Collins of new Orleans dismissed the suit in june 1979 after ruling that he lacked authority to hear the the 5th circuit court of appeals ruled that Collins did have such but then rejected the six judges Legal argue it is evident that there is a growing pub Lic demand for accountability and integrity of Public and the act is designed to carry out that the appeals court in urging supreme court rejection of the judges Justice department lawyers the fact that Federal judges Are appointed rather than elected does not detract from either the Public legitimate interest in evaluating their performance in office or the need to deter conflicts of inter the six Federal trial judges who filed the suit Are Adrian Duplantier of new or leans Nauman Scott of Earl Veron of Lake Wilbur Owens of Robert Hill of and Robert Varner of personally Enrols 3 White girls in Allwhite school judge again defies busing edict a state judge Richard with two clergymen at his defied a Federal judges desegregation orders for the third time monday and personally enrolled three White girls in All White Buckeye High he said As wards of his court that they the girls belonged in school and that he be doing his Job if they were not said principal Charles Waites said the judge threatened to have him arrested if he refused to enrol Michelle Linda and Ramona they were dropped from the Rolls last when District judge Nauman Scott renewed threats of contempt proceed Ings against anyone who opposed his Parish wide desegregation it was not immediately known whether Scott would take action against Lee and the girls for mondays under Scotts desegregation plan handed Down in the girls would be bused to search for bodies firemen in East a suburb were the firemen were searching Mother of 12 was being held in jail for across the Mississippi River from the front bedroom where nine of the leaving 11 of her children alone so she search through charred re bodies were to could go dancing Only to return Home ins of a Home where 11 childrens bodies lice reported that a unmarried and find them dead in the a 54percentblack Jones Street Junior High in the biggest town in the Par Lee is scheduled to appear in Scotts court on thursday to explain Why the Feder Al judge should not Fine him for each Day of his the two clergymen told me they were Here because they Felt that the girls needed some moral Waites in an earlier Lee said he was ready to defend himself at the contempt i imagine its going to Cost me some but i have received offers from All Over the United states from attorneys offer ing their Aid and even to the extent of coming Here and entering the suit As attorneys of Lee said i have to advise you a Little ahead of time that All my phones have been Lee said when contacted by phone at Home he said he believed Federal officials were responsible for wiretaps he sus and added Federal officials were contemplating criminal conspiracy charges against him and others involved in defying Scotts this Doest bother Lee Treyve tried the that didst there not going to flog me Down on the attorney in Shreveport called for a Day fines against Lee when the state judge escorted the three girls to Buck Eye High after Scott told state and local police not to do Lee had sent police to the school twice to see that the girls were the jurisdictional fight Between Lee and Scott began when the girls parents gave up 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