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...attract clients, CLAO papered neighborhood churches, grocery stores, and pool halls with posters informing residents of its legal services. And clients began to come in, either on their own initiative, or on the advice of social agencies. As the caseload grew from an October average of 16 per week to 25 per week in February, word of mouth became CLAO's best advertisement. "We've been getting a lot of clients," Garrity says, "who just say they've heard somewhere that those fellows at 245 Broadway are a pretty good bunch of lawyers...
Litigation Explosion. So busy is the frenetic Fifth that last term it took on 40% more cases than any of the nation's ten other circuit courts. In four years the caseload has jumped nearly 100% to a projected 1,200 appeals this term. With almost 175 cases per judge, the Fifth is now well beyond the 80 a year said to be tops for efficient ap- pellate judges. Yet only about 5% of the Fifth's cases stem from civil rights disputes. It is deluged with writs of habeas corpus arising from the Supreme Court...
Suspect Solution. Even if Southerner Lyndon Johnson solves the formidable problem of getting Democratic Southern Senators to approve two Southerners of the type the Fifth deserves, the trouble is that nine judges cannot handle the court's runaway caseload. There are two alternatives: add judges or cut the load. Because some experts insist that appellate courts should have no more than nine judges, Congress will shortly be asked to reduce the Fifth's jurisdiction by creating a new seven-judge circuit court to handle Texas, Louisiana and the Canal Zone...
...Slashed its staggering backlog of cases and "matters," i.e., investigations that may or may not become "cases," from 75,000 in 1952 to 53,000 in 1956-even while increasing the caseload by 10%. ¶Initiated a practice of checking with the American Bar Association before recommending a nomination to the federal bench; observers are generally agreed as to the notably high quality of the four Eisenhower-appointed Supreme Court Justices and the 131 judges named to lower federal courts. ¶Prodded and pushed federal courts toward clearing their swamped dockets, e.g., by recommending younger judges, by urging judges...