European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 17, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes tuesday. May 17,1988 garbage right to privacy concept sifted trashed by justices decision Washington a the supreme court ruled monday thai americans have no right of privacy to heir garbage once it s Pui out for collection by a 6-2 Vole he justices reinstated drug dealing charges against 1wo California residents. Police disco Creel evidence of narcotics in their garbage. The police cannot reasonably be expected to Avert their eyes from evidence of criminal activity that could have been observed by any member of the Public said Justice Byron r. White for the court. A is common knowledge that plastic garbage bags left on or at the Side of a Public Street Are readily accessible to animals children scavengers snoops and other members of inc Public while said. The fourth amendment to inc Constitution Gener ally requires police to obtain search warrants from a Judic before conducting searches. Bui while said the Consoli Luliona Protection Doc nol apply to discarded trash because people have no expectation of privacy for their garbage. In a dissenting opinion Justice William j. Brennan said scrutiny of another s trash is contrary to commonly accepted notions of civilized behaviour. I Lus Eccl therefore thai members of our society will be shocked to learn that he court the ultimate guarantor of Liberty deems unreasonable our expectation that the aspects of our private lives thai Are concealed safely in a Irish bag will not become  t in was joined by Justice Thurgood Marshall. Joining while were chief Justice William h. Rehn Quill and justices John Paul Stevens Harry a. Black Mun Sandra Day o Connor and Antonin Scalia. Justice Anthonym Kennedy the newest member of the court did not take part in deciding the Case monday s ruling overturned decisions by California courts that said police officers must obtain warrants before searching discarded garbage. Police sifted through garbage collected from outside the Home of Billy Greenwood in Laguna Beach Calif on april 6 and May 4,1984. They found drug paraphernalia and drug residue and then obtained a warrant to search Greenwood s House. There they seized marijuana hashish and cocaine and charged Greenwood and Dyanne Van Houlen supreme court Roundup who was also present with narcotics Possession state courts threw out the charges after ruling hat police violated the rights of Greenwood and Van Hou Len. The stale courts relied in part on a 1971 Californi supreme court decision that said residents of the stale have an expectation of privacy in their garbage. The effect of that ruling was overturned by proposition 8, a 1982 initiative Law known As inc victims Dill of rights in which California Volcks approved these of police evidence unless it was obtained in Viola lion of Federal restrictions. The supreme court monday said the initiative Law docs not violate the us. Constitution. Flying Behemoth a soviet an in transport plane soars through Nunez Diego. According to june s All the world s aircraft Vars during the air spare America or show in san the plane is the world s Largos transport aircraft. In other action the court ruled thai Federal prisoners arc entitled to inspect substantial portions of their pre sonic acc investigative reports prepared by the government. The 5-3 ruling in two eases from California was labelled a Bombshell by Dis Scalers who said it May trigger o flood of new requests for government reports under the Freedom of 1 information act. Upheld a 11,8 million judgment against an insurance company ordered to pay the Money to an injured Mississippi Man whose 120,000 claim it wrongfully , in one of the most closely Wolc Rcd cases of the year the justices declined to decide inc constitutionality of such enormous punitive damage awards in per Sonal injury  court in a ruling based on procedural grounds said the Issue was not properly presented in the Case. Agreed in an important Case for stale treasuries to consider whether new Jersey unfairly is forcing 13 major Oil companies to pay millions of dollars in lairs. The court Aid it will review a ruling that allows new Jersey officials to deny slate tax deductions for what the companies pay in Federal Windfall profits taxes. Let stand the espionage conviction of a . Spy Agency employee who sold surveillance secrets to soviet agents. The justices without comment turned away arguments that Ronald w. Pc ton was denied a fair trial when convicted of Selling classified information about his Agency s electronic eavesdropping programs nicotine addiction likened to heroin Coke dependence Washington a nicotine is addictive like heroin and cocaine inc surgeon general declared Mon Day. The report came As no Surprise to researchers Butwill provide new ammunition for anti smoking forces. The significance of the report by c. Everett Konopis not that it unveils new scientific evidence but that he organized existing research into a systematic presenta Tion lumping nicotine in with heroin and cocaine As physiologically addictive substances. Careful examination of the data makes i Clear that cigarettes and other forms of tobacco arc addicting Koop wrote in a preface. An extensive body of research has shown that nicotine is the drug in tobacco that causes addiction. Moreover the processes that determine Lobasco addiction arc similar to those that determine addiction to drugs such As heroin and  in a letter to Congress accompanying the report. Health and human services Secretary Otis r. Bowen said a wanting Label on the addicting nature of to Bacco use should be rotated with Oiher health warning Snow required on cigarette and smokeless tobacco pack Ages and  managers should be fired sex Sec attorney says Washington up a woman who successfully sued four securities and Exchange commission managers for turning the Washington office into a Brothel said monday she would like to see them fired. Catherine Broderick 35, a staff Asior Ney at the Sec won a lawsuit Friday after a 9-year Battle against four marred managers she said had a series of office affairs with women employees. The office operated As a Brothel As the affairs were flaunted in front of other employees from 1979 until 1984, she said. She told a news conference the manag ers look three hour lunches with their mistresses spent whole afternoons drinking and used the office after work and on weekends for their  the women involved gained promotions Cash bonuses and travel assign ments with their lovers Broderick said. She said that although not pursued she was threatened with dismissal and trans Fer and she was blackballed for filing complaints. It was a hellhole a cesspool a Snake pit she said. I would like to Sec them fired t feel i sacrificed nine years of my life so they could have a Roll in the Hay in the  the Sec had no immediate comment. Judge John Pratt of inc . District court for the District of Columbi charged the Sec in his Friday ruling with creating and refusing to remedy a sexually hostile work  it is Clear to us that plaintiff was a capable worker and that her problems arose from her inability or unwillingness to change her attitude toward her super visors and to be a Iram player " Pratt wrote. In summary plaintiff would nol go along to gel along " Pratt said the Sec had actual As Wellas constructive knowledge of the prob lems at the Washington regional office and Yel in look no  however relaxed one s View of sexual morality May be in a different context such views do not cover the pattern of conduct disclosed by the record in this Case Pratt said. Consensual sexual re lations in Exchange for tangible employ meal benefits create and contribute to a sexually hostile working Environ  commission despite a few important appointments of females to positions of responsibility made no serious Effort to enforce the guidelines prohibit ing Sci discrimination. Nol one of the offending personnel was Ever disciplined. One has retired and the others were promoted Paul Leonard who was Washington regional administrator at the time of the complaints has retired. Herbert Brooks assistant regional administrator for Washington at the time was promote to assistant regional administrator for the regulation division said Mcville my Broderick s attorney. James Kennedy who was assistant regional administrator for enforcement is now regional administrator for Phila Delphia. John Hunter who was Branch chief is now the assistant chief trial ii Tommy in the enforcement division at the sects Washington Headquarters May said. Pratt set a May 26 hearing to deter mine what Relief Broderick should obtain. Her attorneys said they would seek a Cash award for the salary Broderick lost through Lack of promotion along with attorneys fees and an order for the Secco initiate proc Durics to investigate such claims