"Th' Supreme Court," said Mr. Dooley, "follows th' iliction returns." Rejecting that cynical observation, political observers have nonetheless awaited with keen interest the Court's first post-election decision on a piece of social legislation. This week it came. At issue was New York State's unemployment insurance law, by which employers are taxed to finance subsistence payments to jobless workers. For his complaining clients. Lawyer Frederick H. Wood of Manhattan had argued that, because the law put the whole burden on employers and made them share it equally regardless of their individual responsibility...
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