U. S. Supreme Court 1928-1929

Although the decisions of' the Supreme Court deal with questions of law, they reflect the outstanding economic, political and social problems of the nation."The efforts of the authors were directed towards producing a work that would give to the mind of the average American reader a working knowledge of the work of our Supreme Court.The book therefore is written for the untrained mind and not for the mind of the student lawyer or law student.The average man in the profession, however, is kept so busy keeping apace with his daily work and local evolution of the law that he knows practically nothing about the work of the Supreme Court.For this reason, this review is of great value to the attorney who hopes some day to broaden the scope of his activity.For the members of the bar, who are interested in federal legal problems, the Legal Research Service publishes a loose-leaf service known as the U. S. Supreme Court Service.For the general public, the Legal Research Service has a system of reporting decisions of the Supreme Court to newspapers and class publications.From the records of these two fields of endeavor, the authors have compiled the book in hand.The book confines itself to the work of the Supreme Court during the past year.The authors point out in the introduction, that the work could have been much more complete if they had allowed themselves to incorporate the historical background of the work covered by the Court but that to do that would involve the writing of a book rather than a review, and their primary object is to give to us a workable review.The work of the Court has been divided into fifteen major parts.In the first chapter, we are told of how the Court functions-the number of cases brought to it each year, the nature of these cases, and manner in which six out of seven petitions for hearings are denied.The other fourteen parts are divided by the nature of these problems presented-Railroad Problems, Public Utilities, Insurance Questions, Banking Cases, Federal Taxation, State Taxation, Anti-trust Acts, Railroad Labor Problems, Jones Seamen's Act, Criminal Cases-Federal Offences, Political Issues, International and Race Questions, and the Judicial Veto.The enumerated topics are all interesting problems but to the mind of the student lawyer what little information is given regarding the jurisdiction of the court is of utmost interest and importance.Therefore, a shore review of the jurisdiction of the court is herewith given.Cases which may be heard by the Court are divided into two classes: those that the litigant may take up as a matter of right, known as Appeals; all other cases brought by litigants which will be heard by the Court at its discretionknown as being heard on Certiorari. APPEALS-MATTER OF RIGHTAppeals may be roughly divided into the following classes:1.An appeal from the decision of the highest court of the state, if the constitutionality of a state statute is in question, and that court has ruled that