University Daily Kansan, February 8. 1984
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Federal judge upholds Craft ruling; company's call for new trial denied
By United Press International
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A federal judge yesterday upheld $252,000 in damages awarded to Christine Craft in her fraud suit against Metromedia Inc. and denied the company's motion for a third trial on the issue.
Motions filed by Metromedia Inc. attorneys last month listed 87 allegations of error in the trial of the former news anchor's claim against her employer, with the motions also requested the judge to reverse the verdict or order another trial.
"Having reviewed this compendium of alleged errors, the court finds no
sufficient reason to disturb the ver-
sion District Judge Joseph
Steven Jr. a law professor.
A FEDERAL COURT jury before Stevens in Joplin, Mo., on Jan. 13 ordered Metromedia Inc. to pay Craft $225,000 in actual damages and $100,000 in punitive damages for misrepresenting conditions of a co-anchor with the team. The panel was the second to hear the case and, like the first, found that Craft was the victim of fraud by station management.
In light of Stevens' ruling, Donald Giffin, lead attorney in the case for Metromedia, said yesterday that the New Jersey-based company would
appeal the fraud verdict to the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals within the next 30 days.
Stevens said the problems of the first trial did not occur in the second proceeding, as Metromedia's motion claimed.
"The instructional errors on wrongful discharge and punitive damages were corrected in the second trial, and the potential prejudicial impact of a penalty was minimized or eliminated by sequestration and the increased number of jurors."
THE FIRST TRIAL in Kansas City was heard by six jurors — who were not sequestered — while a pair of 12 tried the second case in southwest Missouri.
ASK to try to raise student interest in voting
By the Kansan Staff
Only 30 percent of the students at Kansas Regents schools who are eligible to vote in Kansas are registered to vote, the KU director of the Associated Students of Kansas said yesterday.
ASK wants to raise that percentage to 75
Chris Edmonds, the director, said that later this month ASK would launch a statewide voter registration drive in order to reach 64 to increase the number of voters.
"Students have the impact on politics and their educations by electing officials who will support education issues." he said.
TO PREPARE FOR the statewide
drive, Edmonds, Topeka sophomore, will join about 1,000 student government leaders from 40 states this weekend at the National Student Conference on Voter Registration at North University in Cambridge, Mass.
Mark Tallman, executive director of ASK, and representatives from Fort Hays State University and Pittsburgh University will also attend the conference.
Edmonds said that the conference will give ASK members a chance to exchange ideas with student government leaders from other universities.
Edmonds and Tallman will visit eight universities in addition to attending the conference.
CATHY SVEHLA, coordinator of the conference, said that the low number of
registered student voters was not unique to Kansas.
Almost 14 million people between the ages of 18 and 24 who are eligible to vote in the United States have not registered to vote, she said.
The conference agenda includes forums on prominent issues, training on how to conduct voter registration drives and workshops on skills.
The goal of the conference is to solidify a national student voter registration drive by pulling together efforts around the country. Syvieh said.
Speakers will include Ralph Nader, consumer activist; Bella Abzug, former congressman from New York; Randy Forsberg, a leader of a nuclear weapons organization; Joseph Lowey, leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Clubs keep military out, Senate told
By United Press International
TOPEKA — A Fort Rile commander yesterday told a Senate panel that soldiers were being denied membership in private-clubs were in the military, and asked that which discrimination be made illegal.
Col. John Sobraske, deputy commander of Fort Riley, told the Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee that clubs in the Fort Riley area had discriminated against soldiers for many years, and that legislation was needed to ensure that the practice stopped.
The bill, which would make it illegal to deny club membership in class B clubs to a person soley because he was enlisted in the military, was introduced by Sen. Merrill Werts, R-Junction City.
Werts said he did not know of any clubs that discriminated against enlisted men and said the bill was intended as a precautionary measure so past discrimination could not be repeated.
Thomas Kennedy, director of the Alcohol Beverage Control Board, told the committee he supported the aim of the bill but was unsure the bill was the best way to address the problem.
None of three managers reached in Junction City and Manhattan said they refused admittance to enlisted men.
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Proposal would dismiss victims from pre-trials
EMPORIA — An education professor was found shot to death in his car at Emporia State University yesterday, and university officials said they thought the man had killed himself.
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TOPEKA — Preliminary hearings traumatize witnesses and victims and discourage them from testifying at a hearing against victim and prosecutors said yesterday.
A woman who identified herself as Valerie and said she was raped three years ago in Prairie Village at the age of 21, said she felt harassed by the defense attorney at the preliminary hearing because he asked questions that would not have been allowed before a jury.
Raymond Glenn Heath, 56, suffered a gunshot wound to in head, said Paul Kincaid, a university spokesman. He added that the officer tigging the shooting he said, and
The testimony came in a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee on a bill that would delete a requirement that forces witnesses to appear for questioning at preliminary hearings. The judge could also be followed by a committee vote.
SHE SAID THE assailant's wife called her after the preliminary hearing and begged her not to go through with the trial.
Kincaid said the shooting was an apparent suicide.
university officials were awaiting a coroner's report.
Jim Rumsey, a Lawrence attorney representing the Kansas Trial Lawyers Association, was the only person to testify against the bill. Rumsey said small details make the difference for prosecutors and defenders in trials.
The bill was introduced last session at the request of county and district attorneys, but the committee could not reach agreement with Chairman Robert Frey, R.D. Liberal, said.
Heath was an associate professor of administration, curriculum and instruction.
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