Word: circuits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Speaking of the early history of the Supreme Court he mentioned that for over a century its Justices had to ride circuit. That, he interjected, meant actually riding on horseback, so it might be called the pre-horse-&-buggy era. Newshawks guffawed. He continued reading...
...meet the situation, in 1913, 1914, 1915 and 1916, the Attorney Generals then in office recommended to the Congress that when a district judge or a circuit judge failed to retire at the age of 70, an additional judge be appointed in order that the affairs of the court might be promptly and adequately discharged...
...else in sight. For in talking about crowded calendars, dockets two and three years behind schedule, waste, expense, and inefficiency in litigation, and the consequent inaccessibility of justice to the "little fellow", Mr. Roosevelt's remarks, as they apply to district courts, and to a lesser extent to the circuit courts of appeal, are true as gospel. Yet to induce from the bad conditions prevalent in the lower courts that the top court needs remodeling is not only illogical: it is a blow to the hopes of all who are working towards a really effective judicial reform...
...Many cases, as Mr. Roosevelt points out have been refused review by the court. But writs of certiori have never been denied because the calendar forbade: cases have been turned down only because the court could see no probable or possible shadow of doubt in the decisions of the circuit courts of appeal. Yet these very appeal courts, which eliminate much of the work the Supreme Court would otherwise have to look after, Mr. Roosevelt would remove from the course of important cases, in his misdi-rected efforts to gain a more rapidly functioning court of last resort...
This week more violence was in prospect when Circuit Judge Paul V. Gadola granted General Motors' request for an injunction ordering evacuation of two Fisher plants...