Word: caseload
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feeling that he should go into another field. Any field. Jewison said the cases in the movie are all based on actual incidents, a believable fact. But if the cases are true, they couldn't all be taken by the same lawyer--no one could handle a caseload like Kirkland...
Judges share the blame for the courts' delay. In Pittsburgh, criminal judges have almost four times the caseload of those in The Bronx, but dispose of cases five times as fast. Why the difference? Because some judges take an active role in pushing a case along from the moment it is filed. They enforce strict deadlines on filing motions and papers and limit pretrial discovery; in short they stop lawyers from delaying. In other courts, judges sit back and let lawyers set the pace by handing out postponements freely...
...recommendations in the report include proposals to vastly increase the powers of the chief justice of the Superior Court, shift a larger proportion of the caseload from the Superior Court to the district courts, and consolidate the 95 separate trial courts in the state...
...Justices had held over eleven cases until next fall, one of the highest totals in memory. After last week's output of 24 cases, the court had eight to dispose of before it could close for the summer this week. The even larger than usual last-minute caseload is at least partly due to the Douglas disability. During the vacation, the other Justices hope that the still hospitalized Douglas will be able to recuperate sufficiently to resume his duties. No one now believes he will retire willingly. Indeed, he is said to have prepared a scathing answer to anyone...
Whatever future examination of the Supreme Court caseload concludes, Professor Freund's philosophy should be kept in mind: "Our proposals are not of a political or ideological nature. They are neither conservative or liberal. Rather, they strike at a very moral problem between the Supreme Court's responsibility and the exercise of that responsibility." He recently wrote, "few, I think, would wish to challenge...the underlying moral principle that one in whom the responsibility is reposed should in truth perform the function. Few would disagree, I believe, with the diagnosis that optimum conditions do not now exist for the work...