When the U.S. Supreme Court wound up its annual session last spring, it held over eleven casesan unusually large numberfor reconsideration this fall. Next week the Justices will return to start the work of the fall term. Despite their custom of taking up old business first, they plan to hear oral arguments on only two of the eleven cases in October. Reason: votes on the other nine cases promise to be extremely close, and the health of Associate Justice William Douglas, who suffered a stroke last New Year's Eve, is still an open question. Says one expert on the court: "How...
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