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aT \ \ A “/ TN ae ¥ = 4 OO . oo Be mua “wid present term of the regard of judicial Precedents and frequent adjudication of important es on a five-to-four division. These trends caused concern within as well as without the court. To quote Justice Roberts, “it was re- grettable that in an era of doubt and uncertainty ** * this oourt- ahould now itself become the breeder of fresh doubt and confusion.” It was hoped that widespread criticism might lead the jurists to attempt to reach fewer decisions resting on the tenuous, base of one vote. The fact is, however, that with one more decision day remaining 2 before the Summer recess, the ratio of such decisions this term—one in -eight—has been greater than in any other term in the last two decades er longer. The climax was reached this week when in one session, out of SERRE: oe _ Fee eae ¢ @ five-to-four split. Of these five cases the most pub- + lic interest is in the finding ordering | the release of the 24 former leaders of the German-American Bund. The § bundists “had been convicted: of counseling members of the Bund to “Pevade the Selective Service Act, but the majority opinion by Justice Roberts held that “to counsel merely act.” JIn contrast the minority opinion by Chief Justice Stone took [the stand that the defendants “by ‘counseling Bund members to refuse | to tary dutys—eounseled | evasion of military service.” NEWAR EVENING NEWS 61TH) oe i fi . . ‘ i the court, except 45 4, & core of gdjudications, five | os * this situation the ee ee ak - . poy s pbs peer, a, ir fe a i R ee i H + . : a one thing siands out as ciearny 3 | ft has in other terme—there is evi- : Ment no definite slignmest of the ustices Black, | ebound together. That holds main! in certain n classifications of ca , as for example, those relating ae “the Sherman Act, when these re ‘ill invariably be together on anti-trust side. in consequence of ae ee | to a few broad issues, om - . unpredictable aa ever mde the congeries of New Peal | appofitecs. : ——————— H —————— j - § yroexE? 87 JUN 20 1945 a Foe ae . an