No. 75-5868. HERNANDEZ-RODRIGUEZ V. UNITED STATES. C. A. 5th Cir. Certiorari denied. Reported below: 523 F. 2d 1054. No. 75-5879. GRIFFIN V. UNITED STATES. C. A. 1st Cir. Certiorari denied. Reported below: 525 F. 2d 710. No. 75-5882. HOWERY v. UNITED STATES. C. A. 3d Cir. Certiorari denied. Reported below: 524 F. 2d 1404. No. 75-5883. Ross v. UNITED STATES. C. A. 4th Cir. Certiorari denied. Reported below: 527 F. 2d 984. No. 75-5884. WILSON v. UNITED STATES. C. A. 8th Cir. Certiorari denied. Reported below: 524 F. 2d 595. No. 75-5888. STRATTON v. UNITED STATES. C. A. 3d Cir. Certiorari denied. Reported below: 523 F. 2d 1052. No. 75-5889. QUALLS v. UNITED STATES. C. A. 8th Cir. Certiorari denied. No. 75-5891. DIXON v. UNITED STATES. C. A. 3d Cir. Certiorari denied. Reported below: 523 F. 2d 1052. No. 75-5892. DAVIS v. UNITED STATES. C. A. 3d Cir. Certiorari denied. Reported below: 524 F. 2d 1404. No. 75-5917. OSBORNE, AKA PAYNE V. UNITED STATES. C. A. 4th Cir. Certiorari denied. No. 75-5938. C. A. 6th Cir. F.2d 1406. No. 75-6038. NICHOLSON ET AL. v. UNITED STATES. Certiorari denied. Reported below: 524 QUATSLING V. ARIZONA. Ct. App. Ariz. Certiorari denied. Reported below: 24 Ariz. App. 105, 536 P. 2d 226. No. 75-5944. ALLISON V. TENNESSEE. Sup. Ct. Tenn. Certiorari denied. No. 75-6030. MORGAN v. REES, WARDEN. C. A. 9th Cir. Certiorari denied. No. 75-6040. GORDY V. WAINWRIGHT, SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF OFFENDER REHABILITATION OF FLORIDA. C. A. 5th Cir. Certiorari denied. Reported below: 525 F.2d 691. Re No. 75-6041. BRUCE V. COWAN, PENITENTIARY SUPERINTENDENT. C. A. 6th Cir. Certiorari denied. ported below: 524 F. 2d 1405. No. 75-6043. STEBBINS v. NATIONWIDE MUTUAL INSURANCE CO. ET AL. C. A. 4th Cir. Certiorari denied. Reported below: 528 F. 2d 934. No. 75-6048. HICKS v. UNITED STATES; and No. 75-6050. BARNETT v. UNITED STATES. C. A. 5th Certiorari denied. Reported below: 524 F. 2d Cir. 1001. No. 75-6051. GIESE v. HOLT, RINEHART & WINSTON, INC., ET AL. C. A. 6th Cir. Certiorari denied. No. 75-6052. CROUCH v. ROSE, WARDEN. C. A. 6th Certiorari denied. Reported below: 524 F. 2d Cir. 1405. No. 75-6054. NUCCIO v. MEYER, CORRECTIONAL SUPERINTENDENT. C. A. 7th Cir. Certiorari denied. Reported below: 525 F. 2d 695. No. 75-6056. BONNER v. CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ET AL. C. A. 8th Cir. Certiorari denied. Reported below: 526 F. 2d 1331. No. 75-6060. SIMPSON V. KENTUCKY. Ct. App. Ky. Certiorari denied. No. 75-6061. MERLINO v. HALL, CORRECTION COMMISSIONER, ET AL. C. A. 1st Cir. Certiorari denied. No. 75-6063. WALLACE v. LUCEY, GOVERNOR OF WISCONSIN, ET AL. C. A. 7th Cir. Certiorari denied. Reported below: 526 F. 2d 592. No. 75-6064. CHASE V. CRISP, WARDEN, ET AL. C. A. 10th Cir. Certiorari denied. Reported below: 523 F. 2d 595. No. 75-6066. COBBS V. ROBINSON, WARDEN. C. A. 2d Cir. Certiorari denied. No. 76-6127. FULTON V. PENNSYLVANIA. Super. Ct. Pa. Certiorari denied. Reported below: 234 Pa. Super. 745, 342 A. 2d 420. No. 75-608. COUGHLIN ET AL. v. STACHULAK. C. A. 7th Cir. Motion of respondent for leave to proceed in forma pauperis granted. Certiorari denied. MR. JUSTICE STEVENS took no part in the consideration or decision of this motion and petition. Reported below: 520 F.2d 931. MR. JUSTICE WHITE, with whom MR. JUSTICE POWELL joins, dissenting. On appeal from an order granting respondent a writ of habeas corpus, 369 F. Supp. 628 (ND Ill. 1973), the Court of Appeals held, United States ex rel. Stachulak v. Coughlin, 520 F. 2d 931 (CA7 1975), that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires that the reasonable-doubt standard of proof be applied in judicial proceedings under the Illinois Sexually Dangerous Persons Act, Ill. Rev. Stat., c. 38, § 105-1.01 et seq. (1973), which authorizes the State to seek involuntary indeterminate commitment to a correctional institution in lieu of criminal prosecution of a person charged with a criminal offense and believed to be sexually dangerous within the meaning of the Act. The question whether due process requires proof beyond a reasonable doubt in such proceedings has produced divergent conclusions in the Courts of Appeals. Compare Tippett v. Maryland, 436 F. 2d 1153 (CA4 1971), cert. dismissed sub nom. Murel v. Baltimore City Criminal Court, 407 U. S. 355 (1972) (proof by a preponderance of the evidence), with In re Ballay, 157 U. S. App. D. C. 59, 482 F. 2d 648 (1973), and United States ex rel. Stachulak v. Coughlin, supra (proof beyond a reasonable doubt).* The question is important to the administration of justice in this country, and the Court should shoulder its responsibility to resolve the conflicting judgments. I would grant the petition for a writ of certiorari and afford the case plenary consideration. No. 75-682. COLORADO CIVIL RIGHTS COMMISSION ET AL. v. COLORADO SPRINGS COACH CO. ET AL. Ct. App. Colo. Motion of International Association of Official Human Rights Agencies for leave to file a brief as amicus curiae granted. Certiorari denied. Reported below: 35 Colo. App. 378, 536 P. 2d 837. No. 75-759. TAYLOR ET UX. v. ST. VINCENT'S HOSPITAL. C. A. 9th Cir. Certiorari denied. Reported below: 523 F. 2d 75. MR. JUSTICE WHITE, with whom THE CHIEF JUSTICE joins, dissenting. Once again, see Greco v. Orange County Memorial Hospital, 423 U. S. 1000 (1975) (WHITE, J., dissent *Several state courts are also at odds with the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. See, e. g., People v. Pembrock, 62 Ill. 2d 317, 342 N. E. 2d 28 (1976); People v. Burnick, 14 Cal. 3d 306, 535 P. 2d 352 (1975); In re Andrews, Mass. 334 N. E. 2d 15 (1975); In re Levias, 83 Wash. 2d 253, 517 P. 2d 588 (1973). ing), this Court leaves standing a square conflict on an important point of federal law. The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held in the instant case that the receipt by the respondent hospital of federal funds under the Hill-Burton Act, 78 Stat. 447, 42 U. S. C. § 291 et seq., does not render the hospital an instrumentality of the Government so that its actions are governed by constitutional requirements applicable to the States or the Federal Government. The court's holding is consistent with the law in three other Circuits, Doe v. Bellin Memorial Hospital, 479 F. 2d 756 (CA7 1973); Ward v. St. Anthony Hospital, 476 F. 2d 671 (CA10 1973); Jackson v. NortonChildren's Hospitals, Inc., 487 F. 2d 502 (CA6 1973), but squarely in conflict with the rule in the Fourth Circuit. Doe v. Charleston Area Medical Center, 529 F. 2d 638 (1975); Christhilf v. Annapolis Emergency Hospital Assn., Inc., 496 F. 2d 174 (1974); Sams v. Ohio Valley General Hospital Assn., 413 F. 2d 826 (1969); Simkins v. Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital, 323 F. 2d 959 (1963). The consequence is that hospitals receiving Hill-Burton funds in the Fourth Circuit are subject to very different rules as a matter of federal law than are similar hospitals in at least four other Circuits. This Court should not, consistent with a responsible exercise of its certiorari jurisdiction, permit such conflicts on important points of federal law to remain unresolved. No. 75-807. WIGODA V. UNITED STATES. C. A. 7th Cir. Certiorari denied. MR. JUSTICE STEVENS took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition. Reported below: 521 F. 2d 1221. No. 75-986. COLLINS ET UX. v. RIDGE TOOL Co. C. A. 7th Cir. Certiorari denied. MR. JUSTICE STEVENS took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition. Reported below: 520 F. 2d 591. |