The Archive · 1935

A Busy Session

'The United States Supreme Court is likely to have a busy' time before it, when it comes to will be posed to the questions which will be posed to it under the appeals against decisions for the lower Courts in cases arising from further aspects of the New Deal. The cotton processing taxes which have been the cause of 30 much controversy, and concerning which the government received upset in a circuit will be one of the matters which the Supreme Court will have to decide. The original attack on the constitutionality fof the taxes was launched by the Hoosac Mills, New England. The company lost in the lower court, but when the ease was tried on appeal before three judges in the Circuit Court of Appeals, a _two-to-one majority reversed the lower court's decision and found against the government. The Hoosae Mills case is the only one filed up to the present and its importance arises from the fact that the fate of well over one thousand similar actions will depend to a very great extent, if not con clusively. upon the decision of the Supreme Court, In connection with the other matters which came before the Court, it is interesting to note that it refused to take the case of Thomas Mooney, of the celebrated Preparation Day parade bomb explosion fame, out of the hands of the California state courts. This does

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