Word: dockets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first overage Supreme Court Justice to retire under last year's amendment to the judicial code, 78-year-old Willis Van Devanter deeply resented Franklin Roosevelt's implication that judicial gaffers were responsible for slowing up Federal court procedure. Last week, recalled to help clear the docket of the U. S. District Court for southern New York, Gaffer Van Devanter took the opportunity to put on a burst of speed that left habitues of the lower courts agape...
...during the January term on the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Reason was the same as that for which Associate Justice Charles Evans Hughes returned to the same court just before he resigned to run for President in 1916: a crowded docket. Chief case which senior Judge John C. Knox may assign to his new colleague is the second trial of several defendants for fraudulent use of the mails in manipulating the stock of Atlas Tack Corp...
This week, its bishops and deputies meeting respectively in Masonic Temple and Taft Auditorium, the convention was to tackle some of the problems which have been on its docket not only since the last convention three years ago, but for two or three years before that. Among them...
...case where a law is found unconstitutional an appeal may be taken directly to the Supreme Court, shall go on the Supreme Court docket within 60 days and be heard by the Supreme Court before any other type of case...
...Whenever the docket of any district court becomes overcrowded the senior judge of the circuit shall appoint a judge from another district to help clean up the accumulation of work. Or if there is no other district judge in the circuit who can be spared, the senior' circuit judge shall appeal to the Chief Justice of the U. S. who shall appoint a district judge from another circuit, preferably adjoining that where the need arises, to help out in the district concerned...