Word: docketed
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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During its four-month summer holiday the Court's docket had received 324 new cases, making a total of 514 to be heard. Of these only 18 were original actions commenced by states in the highest court. During the more than five years that John Jay was first Chief Justice of the U. S., the Court heard only a score of cases. Now it considers an average of 1,000 cases per year...
...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...
...front cover) The London Naval Treaty lay motionless in docket during the first week of the special session of the Senate called to consider it. Gales of oratory blew but they were a preliminary storm designed to delay the Treaty's start towards ratification. Only two formal speeches on the Treaty itself, one for, one against, were made in the first five days of debate...