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Guilt & Garbage. To hear some experts tell it, the Warren court has covered so much ground that it now faces its dullest term in 14 years. At first glance, the new docket promises few blockbuster decisions, such as those that banned public-school prayers in 1963 and curbed confessions last June. Yet the Warren court is hardly preparing to go out of business. Last week it faced requests to review lower-court decisions involving everything from labels on Swiss cheese to the right of students to sport beards and spurn haircuts. This week as it goes back to work...
...whom many consider to be the most likely of his race, after Thurgood Marshall, to reach the Supreme Court. If he does, he will take with him some exceptional experience in the art of keeping cases moving. So efficient is the Eastern Michigan court that the backlog on its docket is just about the smallest of any major federal district court...
...Faculty meeting scheduled for May 3 will not be held. A regular meeting is scheduled for May 17. Material for the Docket at all meetings should be submitted to the Dean at 5 University Hall at least twelve days before the meeting at which consideration is desired...
...opens its 176th term, the court also confronts a docket of 1,300 other cases-a fever chart of almost every crucial conflict in the U.S. Among the highlights...
...century-old ritual, Attorney General Katzenbach last week formally introduced the crack lawyer whose cases may well dominate the new term's crowded Supreme Court docket. He is zesty, earthy Thurgood Marshall, 57, once the country's most successful civil rights lawyer, later a federal judge and now the 33rd U.S. Solicitor General. Looking amused at his own anachronistic costume of striped pants, black vest and swallow-tailed coat, Marshall beamed as Chief Justice Warren intoned: "The court welcomes...