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...view of its Chief Justice, the Supreme Court of the United States is choking to death on legal paper work. Speaking last week at a Columbia University dinner honoring the late Harlan Fiske Stone (Chief Justice from 1941 to 1946), Warren Burger noted that the annual docket has grown from 1,448 cases in 1945, to 4,202 in 1969-his first year on the court-to 4,533 cases last year. At last Friday's conference session, he added, the Justices had to consider whether to hear full-dress arguments on as many as 247 cases...
...such noted left-wingers as Corliss Lamont, Paul Robeson and Rockwell Kent in proceedings that finally resulted in a 1958 Supreme Court decision ending State Department restrictions on international travel by leftists. All told, Boudin has argued before the Supreme Court 15 or 20 times (the late Justice John Harlan once listed him among the ten ablest lawyers to appear before the court...
...course. Liberal? Conservative? It has undeniably shifted toward the latter, but the votes are so close, the opinions so numerous that the court as a whole remains something of a puzzle. It has, of course, no obligation to journalists or historians to be quantifiable, but as the late John Harlan observed, the ability to "definitely settle differences in an orderly, predictable manner" is a legal system's vital contribution to any society...
Vintage Year. In 1924, Attorney General (later Supreme Court Justice) Harlan Fiske Stone offered to make Hoover director of the department's Bureau of Investigation, then a slovenly, corrupt outfit. Though only 29, Hoover insisted that he would take the job only if the bureau were divorced from politics and the civil service. He established an absolute authority at the beginning. He demanded that his agents have either a law or an accounting degree, resisted any and all political pressures. Hoover turned the bureau into the world's most efficient crime-fighting apparatus, with an elaborate fingerprint library...
...High over California, an unemployed Stanford graduate named Stanley Harlan Speck, 31, demanded $500,000 and four parachutes in a plan to commandeer a Pacific Southwest Airlines 727 to Miami. But he imprudently left the plane at San Diego to pick up navigation charts for the crew, and was overpowered by police and PSA's hard-nosed president, J. Floyd Andrews, who said: "What these guys really need is to get shot right in the face...