Evening star., 1952-01-01
Supreme Court
Sets tomorrow
As Decision Day
Tronsit Broudcusts
And Dollar. Ship Case
Among 36 on Docket
By Robert K. Welsh

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Among 36 on Docket
By Robert K. Welsh
The Supreme Court win start
1852 tomorrow by handing down
decisions on some of the SO cases
already argued and stepping up
the procedural pace of the term
which began last October.
Besides hearing arguments dur
ing the next two weeks on an
unusual variety of issues, the court,
early in February, is likely to listen
to four of the biggest cases of the
year.
Those are the controversy over
radio broadcasts on buses and
streetcars here. the Dollar Steam
ship stock dispute involving con-
tempt of court judgment against
Commerce Secretary Sawyer and
others, Bible reading in New Jer-
sey public schools and released
time" religious instruction for New
York public school pupils. Final
decisions may come before the
term ends in June.
Oregon Case Involved. !.
Among 20 cases docketed for
hearing beginning tomorrow are
those dealing with a prepaid
medical care program in Oregon,
a Missouri law requiring employers
to pay workers for four hours they
may take off to vote in political
elections, and contempt convic-
tions of lawyers who defended II
Communist Party leaders SEN
fenced to prison for plotting to
teach and advocate violent over
throw of the Government.
Another case up for argument
tests New York's Feinberg law,
under which a person linked to a
subversive organization cannot get
or hold a job in the school system.
Aliens ordered deported, or de-
MED bail, because Of alleged men,
bership in the Communist Party
at one time or another, figure in
several of the already argued cases
on which opinions may be read
tomorrow.
The court also may rule on the
Illinois group libel law" The
White Circle League of America
distributed pamphlets in Chicago
containing derogatory statements
about Negroes. It's leader, Joseph
Beauharnais, was convicted, and
the State courts upheld validity of
the libel statute. The American
Civil Liberties Union, although
opposed to the views Of Beauhar-
nais and his organization, has
contended that the law is dan
gerouS and unconstitutional.
Other Cases.
Other cases awaiting decision,
possibly tomorrow, raise such
questions as:
Must man who obtained
money by extortion pay income
taxes on it, even though his VIC
tim did not challenge the extor-
ton?
May prosecutors In a State
criminal trial use evidence OBJ
tained by use of a stomach pump?
Were Government Printing Of
flee hourly rate employees entitled
to double time and a half pay
for working on holidays during
the war, while classified employees
got no additional pay for such
holiday work?
Does the Atomic Energy Act
exempt from a Tennessee sales
tax the materials bought by GER
tain contractors for Acc projects
in that State?
The court tomorrow may agree
to review some of the more than
100 pending appeals, as well as
dozens of miscellaneous petitions.
Several have been hanging fire
since early in the current term,
which started last October. Dur
ing the last three months the
court has refused to review more
than 300 such petitions.
The court has not yet said
whether 1t will review three sets
OF appeals affecting Judith Cop
lon, former Justice Department
employe who was convicted here
and in New York City on charges
OF spying for Russia. Her con-
viction was upheld by the Court
OF Appeals here. while the one in
New York was reversed.
School Segregation Issue.
Racial segregation in public
schools, particularly in the ele-
mentary grades, is at issue in cases
that have come from South Caro-
lima and Kansas. The Supreme
Court might soon announce
whether it will review those cases.
It has indicated. however, that 1t
will await a further expression of
views by the Court of Appeals here
on jurisdictional and technical
points before deciding whether a
similar question affecting the Dis
trict's public school system should
be heard first by a special three
Judge court.
Another review petition Of par
ticular interest to the District as
well as nationally is the suit
brought by the Safeway Stores
against Price Administrator Mi
chael v. Disable. It is the first
price-control case under the De-
Tense Production Act to reach the
Supreme Court.
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