Word: dockets
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...justice was also wielding his official and personal power to chop into a horrifying backlog of cases. He drafted 55 retired or underworked judges to dispose of hundreds of appeals cases that had languished for as long as five years. Result: the backlog is gone. Since 1973 the appellate docket has been "current," a rarity for state courts. By mixing public praise for jurists who cut their trial backlog with private tongue-lashings for those who did not, Heflin achieved a 16% drop in criminal trial delays in the face of a 48% jump in cases filed. Civil trials were...
Hearts set on recessing by the end of June, minds wrestling with a huge term-end backlog, the nine Justices of the Supreme Court face a forbidding task. Before this week is out, they hope to decide 32 cases-nearly a fifth of the year's docket-including the constitutionality of capital punishment and press gags. Last week the court ruled on no fewer than 24 cases. Four had particular national significance...
...hourly basis, often with precious little chance to weigh them. In this case, the President's views may not stand up in court-at least if his Justice Department's arguments to the U.S. Supreme Court prevail. Among the cases still on the Supreme Court's docket is an appeal from a decision against two Virginia private schools that refuse to accept black students. Two federal courts have already ruled against the schools (and Ford's position) on 13th Amendment grounds. If the Supreme Court affirms the judgment of the lower courts, a new legal frontier...
Dreaded Specter. Fortunately, the pending docket, in the view of one Justice, "is the least interesting of any before the court in many years." The most important new case is the constitutional challenge to the 1972 federal campaign spending reform law, which its critics claim restricts the right of free political activity. There is special congressional language in that law directing an early Supreme Court determination. So the Justices may feel they have to resolve it, even if Douglas' is the swing vote. Of course, should five or more Justices other than Douglas agree, that and any other case...
When a case is presented in committee, everyone has the docket in front of him. The area man presents a summary, reading from the school and teacher reports, the student's essay and the interview report...