European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 2, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday april 2, 1987 the stars and stripes Pago 7 government May search worker s files no warrant needed supreme court rules Washington a a government worker Dom Don not always need a court warrant before open ing and Worthing the employee s office desk or file Cabinet the supreme court said tuesday. The justices by a 5-4 vote overturned a ruling that California officials violated a physician s privacy tights when searching his office at a stale Hospital. The court said Public employees have a constitutionally protected privacy in their offices desks and files. But it ruled thai their Bosses unlike police offi cers do not need court warrants or probable cause to suspect a crime before conducting work related searches the imposition of a warrant requirement would conflict with inc common sense realization that government offices could not function if every employ ment decision became a constitutional matter Justice Sandra Day o Connor wrote in the court s main Opin Ion. The ruling does not affect Hose americans who work for private employers because he Constitution s fourth amendment protects Only against privacy inva Sions by government agents. O Connor s opinion will not carry the Force of a majority ruling because Justice Antonin Sealin who supplied the crucial fifth vote disagreed with o con nor s reasoning. And the court made Clear its ruling is no indication How the justices might View the constitutionality of mandatory drug testing of Public employees. O Connor said the court chose not to address inc proper fourth amendment analysis for drug and Alco hol testing of we re disappointed but our worst fears have not been realized said Craig Becker a lawyer with the american federation of stale county and municipal employees. Al least the court found some constitutional pro Lection for Public employees although it is not Clear whether thai Protection will Stop any office searches he said. Dig test arc much More noting that the Reagan administration had argued that Public employees Nave no constitutional Protection against work related searches by their Bosses Becker said it s not As much of a setback for u As the Experiment could Lead to suspended animation Frozen fog brought Back to life Berkeley Calif. A scientists froze a dog and successfully thawed him out in an Experiment that the researchers say might one Day Lead to bloodless surgery and human suspended animation or. Paul Degalan associate professor of physiology at the University of California at Berkeley and his fellow researcher Are reporting the results of their work this week at the annual meeting of the federation of american societies for experimental biology in Washington . After nine months inc dog is Happy Spunky and shows no signs of poor health Segal and his associates said in a paper prepared for the conference. The project was supported by the american cryonics society life Extension foundation and trans time cryonics company. Similar freezing experiments have been done on hamsters and Dors but the dogs suffered debilitating Side effects Mcgall said. Last june the dog a Beagle named Miles was Given aesthetics cooled in a crushed ice Bath hooked up to monitoring devices and surgically prepared for cardio pulmonary bypass. The dog s Normal body temperature of about 901 degrees was lowered to 68 degrees and his circulating blood was replaced with a blood substitute the scientists said. The animal s body temperature then was lowered to 37 degrees his circulation stopped and the life sup port pumps turned off for about 20 minutes. Miles then was warmed up and the blood substitute was replaced with his own blood which had been refrigerated during the procedure. Additional research is planned on monkeys and Segall said he Hopes to extend the freezing time to three hours or More. We think that will give us More time so if the surgeon needs five or is hours to gel a tumor out they la have it he said in a recent interview. Such capability also could allow doctors to store donated organs for transplantation or preserve some one needing an Organ transplant until one is available Sisters Eileen left and Judy Segall play with mile s. It also could pave the Way for placing someone in suspended animation and using powerful medication which otherwise would damage healthy body parts on cancer Ridden portions of a patient s body. Michigan monday was t mundane Midland. Mich. Up Auburn Hudson no doubt wishes he d stayed in bed. When he left Home monday morning he picked up a newspaper from his Lawn hopped into his car and headed for work. The trouble started when he realized there was a live Bird inside the newspaper. Hudson 39. Said he stopped the car to release the Bird not wearing a Seatbelt Hudson fell out of the car and the vehicle proceeded Down the Road with out him finally crashing into a neighbor s House causing about $ 100 in but not exactly the whole Story. While Hudson was chasing his car Down he Road his pants fell Down. If any neighbors had been peering out their windows they would have seen Hudson hobbling Down the Road Wilh one leg in his pants and the other out. He fell and Hil his head on the Cement As the car kept going. Hudson got 20 stitches in his head and treatment for a sprained and bruises. The Bird got away. It was kind of a bad monday t guess he said. But i be had worse not As strange administration proposed the decision stripped or. Magno a Ortega of a Legal Victory he had won in a Federal Appeal court. Ortega who had worked As chief of profession education at the Napa slate Hospital for 17 years until his firing in 1981, came under investigation thai year for alleged sexual harassment and for the allegedly unauthorized acquisition of a computer. While Ortega was on vacation Hospital officials unlocked his office and searched it. They look some of his personal items from the of tick. The 9th . Circuit court of appeals ruled that Ortega s reasonable expectation of privacy in his office was violated and ordered a trial judge to decide How much Money he should be paid in damages. But five justices said the appeals court was Prema Ture in ruling that Ortega s privacy rights were Vio lated. Further study of his Case s facts is needed they said. Chief Justice William h. Rich Nuisl and justices Byron r. While and Lewis f. Powell joined o Connor. Justices Harry a Blackmun William j. Brennan Thurgood Marshall and John Paul Stevens dissented. High court clears Way for Delta air Western merger Washington a a supreme court Justice Early wednesday cleared inc Way for the $860 million merger of Delta air lines and Western airlines vocal ing a lower court injunction that would have blocked the merger due to a dispute Over Union representation. Supreme court Justice Sandra Day o Connor approved inc application by Western and Delta attorneys to vacate tuesday s ruling by a Ihrcke judge panel of the 9th . Circuit court of appeals in san Francisco said Kathy Arborg supreme court spokeswoman. That Means inc merger can take place Arborg said. The Justice who has responsibility for the 9th Cir Cuit had received the application at 11 40 . Tues Day and made the decision at 2 1j . She said. The appellate court in san Francisco just hours before the merger was to go into effect had ordered inc companies to submit a dispute Over Union representation to an arbitrator saying the merger would be prohibited until the end of the arbitration. At Issue is a 1982 Union contract with los Angelus based Western that slated Western employees would be governed by the pact in the event of a merger. Union lawyers argue the contract must he honoured but attorneys for the airlines say that clause is unenforceable Only about 10 percent of Delia employees its flight dispatchers and pilots belong to unions according to the company. In contrast 92 percent of Western employees Are represented by a Union. Union lawyers estimated thai the arbitration would last a week and Delta officials said each Day of delay would mean lasses of $3 million to 14 million. The 9th circuit court said inc Only Way the merger would be allowed to proceed was if Delia agreed to be bound by the arbitrator s ruling subject to judicial review Aboul which unions could continue to rep resent former Western employ pcs the order signed by judges Alfred Goodwin. Mary Schroeder and Cecil Pool was issued a link More than four hours before the merger was to Lake effect. Stockholders approved the merger in december. Kansas City mayor wins 3rd 4-year term Kansas City to. A mayor Richard l Berkley won a third four year term tuesday defeating councilman Jim heeler in inc non partisan municipal election. Unofficial results Wilh All precincts reporting showed Berkley defeating heeler 50,99210 30,3-11 a margin of Aboul 62 percent to is percent. The Voles Are counted and the Victor 1 is ours Berkley told supporters at a Kansas City hotel. We can l afford to look Back on successes he said. We must took ahead to our future and to inc challenges of our City the challenges of education crime reduction capital improvements and new
