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University of California, Hastings College of the Law UC Hastings Scholarship Repository Hastings Law News UC Hastings Archives and History 4-29-1982 Hastings Law News Vol.15 No.6 UC Hastings College of the Law Follow this and additional works at: http://repository.uchastings.edu/hln Recommended Citation UC Hastings College of the Law, "Hastings Law News Vol.15 No.6" (1982). Hastings Law News. Book 126. http://repository.uchastings.edu/hln/126 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the UC Hastings Archives and History at UC Hastings Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Hastings Law News by an authorized administrator of UC Hastings Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. McKeon v. Hastings LIBERTY CALL!! Court Orders College: LIBERTY CALL!! Provide More Housing Liberty, quality, and a real good time! That's what's in store at the all-school LIBERTY DAY set for For Tenderloin Displaced this Friday, April 30. To celebrate by Jeffree Louden the end of clases for this year, ASH will provide five and a hal f hour In an unprecedented ruling handed Events leading up to the lawsuit bought the buildings, tenants would of 'liberty' on board a real Liberty down by San Francisco Superior Court began in 1972 when Hastings under- not be required to move. Although 810 ship tied up at Ft. Mason. Judge John Dearman on April 9, took a series of purchases of residential tenants were alleged to have moved The 4:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. Hastings has been ordered to provide hotels in the Tenderloin. By 1974, these from the hotels before Hastings began party will be held aboard the S.S. 375 additional units of "comparable" acquisitions included the Ramona providing relocation assistance in 1977, Jeremiah O'Brien, the ational replacement housing to poor and elder- Apartments on McAllister St., the only 35 units of replacement housing Ship Memorial tied up at Ft. ly tenants who moved out of residential Eureka and Philadelphia Hotels on were provided by Hastings, and the Mason Pier 3. Built by thou ands hotels purchased by Hastings to make Golden Gate Avenue, and the Civic lawsuit resulted. of "Rosie the Riveter's" and other room for a planned Law Project Cen- View Hotel on Larkin St. Under Compliance with the Judge's order shipyard workers throughout ter. The case, McKeon vs. Hastings, California's relocation assistance laws to provide additional housing will be World War II, these civilian ships grows out of facts closely related to (Government Code Sections 7260 et facilitated by the fact that Hastings cur- carried cargo across the globe. The those at issue in the PILA suit (see ac- seq.; see also 25 Cal Admin Code Sec- rently owns several residential proper- O'Brien carried cargo, with hun- companying article), and will have im- tions 6000 et seq.), Hastings was ties in the Tenderloin which might be dreds of her sister ships, for the Al- portant ramifications for the College, obligated to provide comparable re- suitable. However, the loss in court lied liberation of western Europe which is expected to appeal the order. placement housing to persons who adds considerably to Hastings' legal at Normandy. The ship is the la t The case was brought as a class ac- moved as a result of these purchases. and political problems with Tenderloin unaltered example of her famous tion on behalf of poor and elderly According to the tenants' attorneys, residents who have battled the College and important type known to be residents of San Francisco by attorneys most of those alleged to have been over various issues for years. Attorneys left, and is a floating museum as for the San Francisco Neighborhood displaced were poor and elderly, aware for both sides have been ordered to well as a national monument to the Legal Assistance Foundation, and was of Hastings' acquisition of the cooperate in developing a plan to pro- American spirit and the sea. based on California's tenant relocation buildings, and concerned about im- vide the necessary housing. The price of admission, ($8.00) assistance laws. Hastings was repre- pending evictions. Hastings did not Briefs on the case are on reserve in the gets each party-goer four open sented by the Attorney General's of- begin notifying tenants until June of Hastings library under the name bars, rocking and rolling to a live fice. 1977 that, although Hastings had "McKeon." band, all the hors d'oeuvres you can eat, and access to Virtually all the O'Brien from bow to stern. So get up off your duffle bags, you scurvy lubbers, haul yourselves up Hastings Security Shaking Down the after gangway, and get yourself set for "Liberty Call!" (Remem ber , April 30, Pier 3, Ft. Students for "Service Charge" Mason, 4:30-10:00 p.m., $8:(0) The Law News has learned, just prior of the Campus Security department. students who have either mislaid their to press time, that Chief of Security The Law News has further found that if office keys or ar'! in dire need of access Jason Harvey has ordered all Campus students instead use the services of have to pay any money for the time ASH Officer Security guards to take a $25.00 "ser- Facilities Operations (room Ill, 200 taken by Security. There IS no evidence vice charge" from any student who McAllister), no money will be taken that providing this service has caused any increase in security personnel or has needs valid access to a student from them for the act of opening a Election reduced security's ability to handle organization office or other area. door. There is no indication of why the This has been confirmed by members Chief of Security has decided that other situations. Results by AI Bromberger Hastings students elected Brad Fuller PILA Suit as 1982-83 Associated Students of Hastings (ASH) Pre ident, Rachelle In Memorium by AI Bromberger Chong as Vice-President, Kimbe'tly The plaintiffs and defendants in the Mart 。セ@ Secretary. and Susie Sprake as PILA v. Hastings ャ。セウオゥエ@ have reached Treasurer. The turnout of 670 students a partial settlement of their dispute and was considered high by ASH observer . have begun negotiations aimed at In an interview with the Law Nel't'S, avoiding a trial on remaining issue . the new officers said that they want to The partial settlement includes plain- increase student セ・イカゥ」・ウ@ and Improve tiffs' agreement to drop the individual relations with the faculty and admini - faculty members named as defendant tration. But they al 0 stressed their sup- and a promise not to join individual port for greater student participation in faculty members as defendants in the decision-making at the College through future in return for the defendants' the student-faculty committee. "We promise not to counter-sue the plain- expect that ASH will come up with tiffs Also, each side has agreed to ap- some solid proposals next year," Fuller point a negotiating committee to dis- said. Chong added that "we share cuss ways to settle the remaining issues SAC's goals, but perhaps we differ on Mathew O. Tobrlner (1904-1982) in the la wsui I. tactics." The new officers stress that The lawsuit was filed in 1980 by their election as a tearn will be a great California Supreme Court Justice, Adjunct Professor of Law students, student groups (including help in accomplishing their goals of get- at Hastings, Advisory Committee Member, Hastmgs Law Journal ASH), and commuruty groups against ting student services increased next the school, its Board of Directors, the year. "We'll take a 'task force' ap- WE FELT THE SWEET EDGE OF HIS JUSTICE AND proach," said Fuller, who noted that COMPASSION DRIVE THROUGH THE HEART AND MARROW faculty, and individual faculty mem- bers in order to force implementation the job of running the student body IS OF THE LA W. of a Public interest Law Program "too big for one man." Sprake agreed, (The Mathew O. Tobriner Memorial Fund/Lecture Series is being set-up (PILP) at Hastings. The suit began as a saying, "We want to pull together the at Hastings. For information contact Ms. Sarah Bruce, class action, but class certification was e!1tire student body." She added that Development Office.) conhnued on page 8 continued on page 8 Page 2 Hastings Law News April 29, 1982 Opinions and Editorials OPINIONS/EDITORIAL POLICIES The Law News solicits viewpoints for its Opinion and Editorials pages from all members of the Hastings community. Other than Law News editorials, the opin- EDITORIAL ions and points of view expressed are not those of the Law News editorial staff, but are solely those of the individual writer. We strongly encourage writers to either respond directly or to write the Law News lerters column. Another Hastings Housing Adventure McAllister Tower: by Jackson Chin, Editor-in-Chief (1982-1983) We live in an age of diminishing ex- In its haste to join the ranks of rede- pectations. velopers, land speculators, and the gen- When a university envisions itself as eral cast of profiteers in the current re- a business enterprise, it is time to be gentrification of the Tenderloin com- wary and critical of such misguided munity, Hastings has lost touch with its direction. alleged non-profit soul. The truth and With the projected May opening of credibility of Hastings as a "public" Hastings' 284-unit McAllister Tower, university and "non-profit" educa- the administration of Hastings has tional institution responsive to com- committed itself to a bald policy of munity needs has been severely jeopar- economic extortion.