Supreme Court Part 16

4 9-19 (Rev. 9-7-56) THESE DAYS:メだ Court Guilty of Unsafe Practio24 By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY THE CONTROVERSY that is arising over the Supreme Court, Representative Wright Patman of Texas has raised a pertinent question, namely, that instead of basing decisions upon briefs submitted by litigants, the court briefs itself, using, at times, mate- rial not submitted to it by either party, but selected by the justice himself or by his law clerk who may introduce matter which, according to Patman, is "...