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Cases put on docket...
...renders a decision within the term. When the court first sat last month for its 143rd term, it carried over 113 cases from last June and received 251 new ones (none of large political moment) accumulated during the summer. In a week it swept 103 cases off its docket by refusing to hear their details...
Ironically, one of the first cases on his docket the next morning was the trial of a drunken driver. A jury found the man guilty, Judge Oakes sentenced him to jail for 90 days, but did not impose fine or costs, suspended sentence until the man could harvest his crops. Three days later Judge Oakes sent his driver's license to the State Registrar of Motor Vehicles, his resignation from the bench to Governor John Gilbert Winant. The following day he presided at the trial of a hit-&-run driver. As the trial got under way, a court attendant...
...Justices could leave Washington with a clear conscience of work well done because the Supreme Court had disposed of a record number of cases since last October and its calendar was clear. When it adjourned a year ago, 172 cases on the docket were carried over into this last term during which 833 more were added. Out of a total of 1,005 cases, the court in eight months acted on 892, compared with 794 the term before. In none of the 113 cases which will go over to the next term has counsel filed briefs or made any argument...
...Supreme Court's docket reflects the trend of the times. When John Marshall was chief justice, a preponderance of the cases involved fundamental constitutional issues between states and Federal government. As the nation developed the emphasis shifted more and more to the economic field until today the Court's calendar is topheavy with civil controversies of a corporate character. Ten years of industrial expansion have virtually transformed the Court into a business tribunal where the constitution becomes largely a matter of economics...