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Drive opens
<br />by Linda R. Woedhone
<br />The National Ingo, of Cilia and
<br />other public Int"at orginbatme, an,
<br />klding off a main, drive this month to
<br />raw 15 million for the State and I,rsl
<br />Ieg,l Cmrteg a pan of the Academy for
<br />State and Loral CnvemmmL
<br />NI.0 Pre, Went Cathy Reynelds, mum.
<br />clunsman id -large farm Dram• called
<br />on every sly —large and rmll—to pay
<br />Ih fair share bawd on city prymistkm
<br />we Accompanying contribution law) to
<br />Inume uul the rfttt will mncnu, In
<br />articulate city Issnn In rase, berme the
<br />Supreme Court.
<br />'The general b,us In rtuny caws be.
<br />felt the Supreme Coud spply to all or.
<br />(. Reyrwld, aid. "it's not ,mamble
<br />fearsome dies In my to the othe. fund
<br />"Ili the strength of wr numbers that
<br />No, alway, made this rrganlutlon wok
<br />B: need that mine show of shenph to
<br />min our funding goal for the Irgif me,
<br />I"," R,ynolds mid.
<br />Three "ganiulim, representing dl-
<br />b,—NLC. the Inlemallonal dly Min.
<br />agrmmt Aswriatien and the U.S. Con.
<br />berms cal ktayom—have m milled to
<br />railing 515 million by July 1988 Iryrh
<br />mtmidpalllim amen9 the melon. The
<br />merry will be placed In a min fund and
<br />will be used, along dih fund, radsd
<br />from muoil. and sores• to pay for the
<br />o ntff i future operation,.
<br />The legal min', round annual bud.
<br />Air b 11500,0IXL The muff provide, II
<br />urvicalocilin, malt andaounlin at no
<br />dirge, whkh h why the hmdrpl mr;
<br />ellm Is Coldal In keep the pmp,m go-
<br />ing.
<br />"Our milmive yoke before the Su-
<br />preme Cold may be sifted:' cold St.
<br />Paul. Minn. Mayor George Iallm". a
<br />member of the center, edi hmy bard,
<br />' if IndlvMml noI and .mind man.
<br />her, fall In par the legal" it, on secure
<br />finandal footng"
<br />himre than 200 cilin hoe already
<br />plmiged to help head the cmter (Smii,f)
<br />Every NLC direct member city, and
<br />in my otherdlim Austria the mnntry who
<br />held Indirect membership In NLC
<br />through their rape municipal leapt",
<br />will rmlve letters In the neat two
<br />meoth,"king for their s rppnf.
<br />Thr Chy cal Phcenia mihmiastcally
<br />rul,ped, the IrgeI rmi" and If, pdn".
<br />Grip Mw"n Inca) gCnnmfh And Inp
<br />IqA ulod." sold Phornh Mayo Teny
<br />(e,1dAu, xmnd solo pmidml of NI.0
<br />wl a member of the ma,', advisory
<br />card.
<br />1.1 world urge everyone to a,dn that
<br />elhm," mid Colorado Springs. Coln.
<br />ities
<br />NA10NAL Nation's C
<br />LFArkl
<br />OF o1lF ® i
<br />I
<br />Washington, D.C. February2,1987 i
<br />to raise V.
<br />Mayor Robert lax, whoa mrmMorthe
<br />eour's Advi u" Mard.1%l m you had
<br />fedmal arabtance, yns kind of npecmd
<br />to have sung+ mme with. It: now you
<br />have songs with rr, wr unm.
<br />"Nlr are e,pedmdng the wort pre.
<br />emptnn Imo the indoor govnommt in
<br />our hhlrvy, and II is really Imp+tam for
<br />rite In help in the Irg,l cent" i eBerm
<br />to mpewnf the Ares News before the
<br />mud," Iwo said.
<br />Along with dlaed solicitation Iron
<br />NLC, five state municipal league, have
<br />also agreed to solicit their members:
<br />Maryland, Virpnb. New Hampshire,
<br />Okbrwrm•and Wymning,
<br />The Maryland Municipal Asaodat in
<br />And our letter, several mouth, ago and
<br />has revived pledges room 10 of Its 142
<br />member prim An Ix.
<br />"I think our mnobers ,Still, the
<br />value of supporting the legal calm:'
<br />Aoki Ion bull, a vulive dirmor or the
<br />Maryland league. "It's mmelhing mery-
<br />body. needs to got behind because we
<br />need to have that kind o(adv"acy.
<br />"Dedslona of f he Supreme Cmm a Bm
<br />everybody," added Bumll, a member d
<br />the NLC Board of DI,mos. "i don't
<br />Think this b m laue oremdl venue large
<br />,film. Whatever the doi dan, by the Su-
<br />prane Cow are, they will have an aRm
<br />emws the Mad; they don't differential,
<br />between wall dtln and large ,firs."
<br />The l,galrfd" wmCreated in 1977 by
<br />the "Big Seven' cogmlvstims to u,bl
<br />state and local gwemments In proad.
<br />Ing urn before the Ua Supreme Cwn.
<br />B.ld. NI.C. the organlutim, con.
<br />prising the Big Seem arc: the Council m
<br />Slate Cmmw"d. int$mploml City
<br />Management Association. National
<br />A"ordatnn of Counties. Notional Con.
<br />form a of state legislatures, National
<br />(-,memon' A"OdAllon And U.S. Gmf"-
<br />Specifically, the enter aa,inc
<br />by helping afrom), In the pepara.
<br />firm of legal Inlets and oral ArgumenrI
<br />1 by sulmdting "friend of the Coen"
<br />(Amkan) brie] In mallet of general mn-
<br />to idenfify Important legal forme, A an
<br />ratty rage In their dewformwo. and
<br />g by keeping stale and fecal legal
<br />mwwl ahead of deralopmmts In the
<br />Supreme Conn.
<br />Until now, the legal miff hot been
<br />fended by a dad -up grant farm the Be.
<br />Mel All Trust; through fund, form Id
<br />paint mgmluton, the Andemv for
<br />Sul, and Leal C rvarro nl, and by di
<br />rot mnm7nniom farm the Big Sevin
<br />mganizatons.
<br />The legal enter sea, mWshd in
<br />mponse to --criticism farm Supreme
<br />5 million for
<br />Coud jmtkm and legal whole. w
<br />thought oat, and oral permanent
<br />wno Irving, dispmpmioaete number
<br />caw," old Porous m Sedoo., chief leg
<br />worrier for the rem". "Sane able an
<br />low l gnvrmmenl x loomys weer alb"
<br />ru ddvsnu,ge because they were unla
<br />milbr wish the operations of the big
<br />cont And it Kronor law principle, or
<br />lamed to theft pnkubr user."
<br />"The Supreme Cam b , very imp"
<br />lint sdor in determining how federal
<br />,Isle and kcal gm unenb will
<br />together:' mid Enid BesumouMrt, dir
<br />of the legal "nlefa parent orpanbetion
<br />the Academy for State a nd Lod Coven
<br />ment. d We art hying to lean how rt
<br />Influme the gstem to soy the things
<br />that Cent to far mid."
<br />The xad"ny, which house the ern
<br />'"' Isa or for for" via or"
<br />"""r
<br />foundoma uper"d by the Big Smro,
<br />where pugoar I'm
<br />to pmHde Ihem widh
<br />Iffhnkal avbunCe, halting and rg
<br />mach. The nrcullwdrod ofthe ai
<br />Sevin serve
<br />a the scadnoyi end the
<br />legal rent"i gmnoing board.
<br />Among Ihr. I, NLC Fa. Dbee-
<br />for Alan Beat, who meenl w ntablhhmm
<br />the IegAI mi" as "a very Important and
<br />critical deelrpmml In preserving the
<br />He of kcal g"emmmh In the federal
<br />,yalem. meatier,' -the measort r"paustm of the
<br />en legal rter LsdId, m the work Iha1 NLC
<br />did In Notarial isagur n/1 r. UseryIn
<br />1975 and in other cos" simper Beale
<br />Aoki.
<br />William Dad., durner of NI.C's Of.
<br />of policy Amipb and Development,
<br />sold dims p dog money to support the
<br />legal Center "males good sense"... be-
<br />cause "taro w got a Jul to low, you art
<br />very vulnerable.
<br />The m i, In rid. If a decision goes
<br />the wrong way can be aamnmmical, out
<br />o only In mawy Inn, but ha Imo of
<br />Imes of power or ".theory to gmno"
<br />the local level." added Davis, who Is
<br />,pee,hrading NI.C, hmdrabing ram.
<br />"no,Supreme Coun will make, set
<br />of judgment, than Is living to shape localgnom ovmU ag"dlns of our Involve.ment." mid Dsi,.
<br />"The court hmh,nd idnwndmdona
<br />that arc advise I. cities and sines In
<br />CA
<br />wn nmeming Inwvan" bwu", fair
<br />IaMr pplkn , munidpl antltml ec-
<br />tiona, and Mhrr Impotsnt maw:' mid
<br />Cmkiard form Phmnh.'The Igal cenin
<br />panels. fin4ute ICr gil mkunsod
<br />coodinstim fm Imal governments that
<br />has bra, sal of our reach In the pal."
<br />Of the 150 rags derided by the man
<br />ro ,arh In is term nun, form October In
<br />July), more than a third of them aBm
<br />,fate and local guvnommts In mme
<br />or
<br />LegalCenterho way. The legal Center hot Bled mme thin
<br />SD amim brier, on ]Wharf of Big Semen
<br />of organizations In the[at
<br />filed bat three fears. Of
<br />al thee, II have been In am that
<br />it Its" beeer, d.ided or are perdingdudng
<br />a the want Iran or the court. sold Joyce.
<br />limismin, one of the legal Center's Ihl"
<br />h lawyers. Another fir, a do will be writ -
<br />in horror the Csmml term ads.
<br />'They're going to ad anyway. so II we
<br />aren't pawning general argument$
<br />through the legal emt"Mhfs fer Cities Is
<br />w
<br />k a whole. we wail gal a larger loaf farm
<br />Ce the euurb , moo mama+opinion could
<br />wark." sold David.
<br />In recent years, the ,adds of acme and
<br />o bral governments winning raw+ before
<br />the high crud have been d to 1. Threr-
<br />fmnih, of the lime the high mid ruled
<br />against we Fmill n.TheRISE,.orgs-
<br />nirAlkm hope to Improve that record
<br />Ihrough the %ork of the legal rat".
<br />David and other. Including Benjamin,
<br />we evidm" that the brief waiting and
<br />weak with Allormy, on front And
<br />prsmlalbn have Infiumced Supreme:
<br />Coud dd,ims.
<br />Themud has quoted legal ml"bdefa
<br />filed on behalf of din in sand Cure,
<br />Benismin Wald, ..it has used veaanning
<br />pod forth In legal cenlesbcieba, the basis
<br />for decisions.
<br />The regal ern" brick, most of which
<br />ere written by attorney, In private pcac+
<br />rim without charge, Ivy In present
<br />broader principle, of law that vv11t help
<br />develop the Judicial philosophy of the
<br />nun and will dunk the soul about
<br />Immalhm.
<br />"A dmple wimbw, record h 40mnly
<br />Imdpuate to mfl t the Imprt awe be.
<br />li eve the legal Winter I, bepnning to luvr
<br />on the phllowphy of Ibe cwd:'staled,
<br />r"nl legal armor summary of coon N
<br />which the Crude, Intervened.
<br />Source, oodlde the cent" age".
<br />In the Fall 1996 lsue of The Urbsn
<br />Lally", a quadedy publiutor of the
<br />American Bar Association. Robert
<br />F.Ilkh, a gangs City Altomey and pro-
<br />lswr of law al the Univmlty of Mis-
<br />rind• wade, "The Odolm, 19M9 rem of
<br />rtM US. Supreme Court proved to he the
<br />noel s"ce„hd fur klate and Imal gov.
<br />nommh In decades .... hi,im,mdlt for
<br />Improvements In the outmme of Su-
<br />prrme Coin decisions most Ile,ddh the
<br />Advocacy brief writing and the amim
<br />Cods, pmgram of the State am Loral
<br />Legal Center."
<br />17dlkh serves on IheJa.'rol adO.
<br />my Mau fo, the ,min,
<br />Clrvefood MayorS, win"kh,,
<br />pail prnldml of NIX, wrote it$ a recent
<br />Inter do The legal miter that Their brief,,
<br />Lvaf No. 9T, fi"Fgh rot V. Ci1vefunv
<br />tend "clearly was a maim fader in The
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