Word: certiorari
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...Justice Earl Warren, addressing the American Law Institute in Washington, offered an indirect defense. Said he: "We have every reason to believe that at the last session of this term we will be able to say, as the court has said every year since 1928, when it acquired the certiorari* jurisdiction, that all cases ready for argument have been heard and decided." But by Warren's own figures, Frankfurter had a point. At last reckoning, the Supreme Court had disposed of 1,415 cases during its present term, compared with 1,391 at the same stage of the previous...
Treating the appeals as routinely as possible, the court grouped them with 23 others in its list of orders and merely said as to all of them: "The petitions for writs of certiorari in these cases are severally denied...
...fact that Davis did have an opportunity to make his plea at an earlier date was the clear instance of how a set of confused legal procedures can spell tragedy. On the one hand, said Davis, federal law allows an attorney 90 days to file for a writ of certiorari (a re-examination of the record) upon the State Supreme Court's refusal of a rehearing. But in Abbott's case, the State Court set the date for execution two weeks before the 90-day limit. Thus, with the writ still on file, there was the barest possibility...
...constitutional right to freedom of speech, belief, conscience and assembly. The Supreme Court has not consented to hear such First Amendment claims in recent cases involving congressional investigations. That is not a reason for failing to assert rights which the individual citizen believes that he possesses. The denial of certiorari, we are told repeatedly, is not an adjudication by the Supermen Court. The Court has frequently changed its mind in the past where it has come to realize the significance of the problem presented...
...captain at the fort, realizing his plight, got copies of the briefs, which the lawyers had never even shown Billings. Finding the Army's case "shot full of holes," he decided to apply for a writ of certiorari that would bring the situation before the United States Supreme Court...