Syracuse Herald-Journal (Newspaper) - January 12, 1984, Syracuse, New York NATIONAL Syracuse January 12, 1984 Merle and parents of Karen shown in front of a photo of their daughter Silkwood ruling hailed by litigation not over OKLAHOMA CITY Companies should heed the Supreme Court's decision in the Karen Silkwood case and set better health and safety measures for the father of the late nuclear safety activist But an attorney for Kerr-McGee which had appealed the awarding of million in nitive damages to Ms. Silkwood's con- tended the nuclear power industry is already adequately regulated by federal Ruling The ruling Wednesday a message to big companies that they ought to look at how their plants are run like Karen was trying to do here to get better health and safety said in a telephone inter- view from his home in Supreme Court justices by a 5-4 vote stated a jury's million award won by Ms. Silkwood's children against The jury found that negligence led to Ms. Silkwood's radioactive The court's decision was said Merle Karen's at a derland bank where she been working on this nine years and they awarded the whole thing that we won in the court for she The money will be held in escrow until the children 17, 13, and 14 come of They live with their William in Children hear news at school Meadows had been divorced from Ms. wood when she died in a 1974 automobile He has since Beverly Meadows said in an interview that she learned of the court's decision Wednesday when summoned to the Ardmore High School principal's happy we won for the principle of the I really don't care about the she The teen-ager said her father had worked to keep his children out of the public eye during the nine-year legal wants us to live normal and he hasn't ever signed anything in connection with the case or with the Beverly think we'd all just like for everything to be over Clark to slow oil leases despite court approval WASHINGTON Despite a Supreme Court ruling that permitted former Interior James Watt's oil leasing program to go Watt's William is ex- to move more slowly than Watt Watt had pushed to offer virtually the entire U.S. coastline for oil and gas drilling by mid- 1987. While all final decisions have not been changes being discussed include slashing by perhaps SO percent the amount of acreage of- in future according to sources who spoke on condition they not be Clark's actions are coming just as the Reagan administration won a big court victory over its leasing The Supreme Court on in a 5-4 gave the Interior Department a free hand to sell oil and gas leases beyond three miles of the nation's The court said the administration may sell oil exploration leases without determining whether the sales endanger a state's mental ruling that states will have later opportunities to protect against oil spills and other Mentally ill denied SS benefits secret policy revealed in state suit NEW YORK The Social Security Administration adopted a secret policy five years ago that illegally denied disability benefits to at least tens of thousands of people who are severely mentally ill. a federal judge of the fixed clandestine policy against those with mental illness is U.S. District Judge Jack Social Security Administration spokesman Jim Brown seeing his decision 1 doubt we could The agency was sued last year by both the city and state of Now York on behalf of mentally ill residents whose benefits were cut off. Officials said Wednesday's ruling could bring lion in new benefits into the Though city officials blamed the ad- year the policy 1U78. was during the Carter the court ruling in a 52-page said the agency consistently followed the from 1978 until at least the early months of 1983. 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