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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1986
Page
7
The House Ethics Committee seeks subpoena power to review confidential documents after a Mingo tavern birthday party where two women allegedly danced nude and one allegedly engaged in a sex act with a legislator. A Jasper County grand jury investigation is ongoing and should conclude within two weeks. politics aside, the panel should pause until legal probes finish.
The Wall Street Journal reporter R Foster Winans and two partners profited about 700000 through trades based on unpublished column material. Judges upheld a conviction on misappropriation theory amid broader questions of securities law and fiduciary duty.
President Reagan cited cases like a 1.75 million award to a doctor after a Sears lawnmower incident and a California case involving a jammed phone booth to illustrate runaway liability awards. He argues that facts are hard to verify and that trial lawyers obscure true data while pursuing broad changes in tort law.
Rising malpractice premiums hit obstetricians in Los Angeles with 36 000 to 61 000 yearly costs and 685 to 1175 per birth. The author argues federal tort reform proposals limit joint liability and large awards, urging state action and consideration of punitive damages. The crisis worsens as insurers withdraw from liability coverage.
In a seventh grade class at St. Jude's School Cedar Rapids several students including Bridget Kern and Melissa S Boyer urge President Reagan and General Secretary Gorbachev to pursue world peace without nuclear weapons. They argue disarmament would curb hunger and suffering and demand action from governments and the public.
Michael Barone argues that evangelical figures Jesse Jackson and Pat Robertson reshape both parties through cultural appeal. Jackson’s civil rights stance energizes black voters while Robertson’s Indiana upset signals a surge of religious voters, potentially eclipsing traditional party machinery and shifting focus from governance to cultural politics. Both threaten to push their parties toward enthusiasm over workaday policy.
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