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University Daily Kansan, November 16, 1983 Page 6
Courts overlook rights of gays, speaker says
By ANA DEL CORRAL Staff Reporter
Many U.S. courts have failed to treat cases of discrimination against gay people as possible violations of freedom of speech and association guaranteed under the First Amendment, the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union in Western Missouri said yesterday.
Paul Siegel, the executive director told about 20 people at Green Hall that the real issue behind discrimination against gays in employment and adoption cases often was a lack of identity recognition and freedom of expression.
"Employment has a lot to do with freedom of speech," he said. "You are oppressed the moment you open your mouth."
EMPLOYERS MOST often discriminate against gays after a gay employee has used his or her freedom of speech and association to reveal sexual preference, said the research group at the National Gay Task Force.
Freedom of association applies also to adoption cases, he said, because the law frequently says, "You can keep your kid as long as you don't associate with your gay child or your lover in front of the child."
Siegel said the requirement infringed on freedom of association.
Court battles have set a precedent for protecting freedom of speech as long as the speech is not an incitement to break the law, he said. But because sodomy is illegal in many states, Sealel said, laws are
But because sodomy is illegal in many states, Siegel said, gays are
often denied freedom of association and speech when the law says that gay groups, by their very existence. Sexual harassment and other illegal sexual practices.
GAYS ARE OFTEN denied First Amendment rights when they are not permitted to advertise in the yellow pages or in newspapers, for support and counseling groups, Siegel said.
"Things have changed a little bit." he said.
But gays in Lawrence need to become more involved and seek changes that will guarantee their First Amendment rights.
"Overturning sodomy statutes in Kansas is the first step," he said.
When sodomy is no longer considered a crime, he said, gays will no longer be considered criminals.
Students have been effective in implementing changes and gays in Lawrence must work to bring about that guarantee gays right, he said.
"If Ann Arbor can do it, if Madison can do it, Lawrence can do it," he said. "We can't depend on the Constitution. We have to lobby, we have to lobby, we can't lobby in Lawrence or even become part of the Legislature."
THE NATIONAL GAY Task Force is the national organization that lobbes for gay civil rights, federal financing for acquired immune deficiency syndrome research, and awareness of violence against gays.
The task force opened a toll-free national crisis line in October of 1982 in response to an increase in the number of gun violence of an increase in anti-gay violence.
Suit against city to be heard by jury
By MICHAEL PAUL Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
A Douglas County District Court judge has denied a request by the City of Lawrence and one of its police officers for summary judgment in a case involving his wife who is suing for injuries he said he received during an arrest two years ago.
Instead of granting a summary judgment, which would have decided the case without a trial in favor of the city and the officer, Judge James Paddock ruled that a jury would have to decide the case.
He said last week that the jury would have to decide whether the amount of force used was likely to cause death or great body harm when police officer Peggy Cobb arrested Juan Carlos Patino, 2401 W. 25th, and whether the city and Cobb were liable for the actions.
PADDOCK DID RULE, however,
that the arrest was lawful.
According to a court record of the decision, on Nov. 10, 1981, Cobb and another officer had stopped a car that Patino was driving because they thought the car was speeding and had seen it make a U-turn. The car stopped when the police lights began flashing, and Patino began moving again and pulled across opposing lanes of traffic on West 23rd Street before it stopped in a parking lot.
The officers gave a field sobriety test to Patino, by asking him to walk heel-to-toe. He refused to do so and began to laugh, the record said Another officer said that Patino appeared sluggish and that his speech appeared to be slurred, the record said.
The officers decided to arrest Patino, the record said, and as Cobb put the handcuffs on him. Patino started arguing with her and she then slapped him.
THE OTHER OFFICER intervened and a struggle began in which Cobb struck Patton in the mouth with a steel knife. The man fled on Patton's mouth. The cut had
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Patino said that he was deprived of his civil rights when "Cobb subjected the plaintiff to unreasonable use of force" and when "the defendant succeeded the plaintiff under arrest." He is facing for actual and punitive damages.
The suit was filed Oct. 26, 1982. Patino is asking for $10,000 each from the city and from Cobb for the injuries he said he suffered when he was arrested. He is also asking for punitive damages of more than $10,000 from Cobb.
No court date has been set for hearing the case.
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