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...There are three reasons for the slow growth and the continuation of high unemployment," he said. "There's the backlog from the recent inflation, there's the cautiousness of the national economic policy in limiting the money supply and not utilizing a full employment deficit, and there's the fact that after ten years of steady growth, businessmen have very large capital stocks, and won't be increasing them greatly...
Even with the new divorce law, though, most are likely to remain outlaws for some time. In Rome, the court that will hear divorce pleas is already struggling with a backlog of 2,400 family cases-enough to keep it busy through mid-1972. The expected addition of 30,000 divorce cases to the docket means that many Italians will not get a chance to savor divorce Italian style until...
...board of hearing examiners will be the first such board in the United States to be comprised of law students. Cronin said that he has already appointed twenty Harvard Law students to the board and that he expects to appoint at least ten more to deal with the backlog of adjustment hearings...
...clog in New York's criminal courts is so monumental that in 1968 they took on 480,000 new cases and wound up with 520,000 still unsettled. The backlog has multiplied nearly 15 times in ten years. Preliminary-hearing sessions are so jammed that 30 seconds is a typical proceeding. After that, the average defendant waits two months before getting to plead guilty or not guilty. Those who demand a trial sometimes wait three years-in jail if they cannot afford bail...
...Plunge. Blackmun spent the summer at home in Rochester, Minn., pondering cases to come before the court this term. Rarely have the Justices faced a bigger backlog of tough issues. Taking an icy plunge next week, they will hear at least eight hours of arguments in six desegregation cases, four of which involve the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school district in North Carolina. A major issue, is to what extent a federal court may require busing or other methods to eliminate all-black schools. Not only may the court's decision affect cities in the North as well as the South...