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ee are cee ee Re eg pte hird “Circuit” COirt’s 1 siting Average: : 090 - By United ‘Preaa A Justice ‘Department survey revealed today that all of the 16 cases of the Third Circuit Court of Ap- |peals at Philadelphia which reached the Supreme Court during the 1937-38 term were reversed... : The figures revealed that only one Circuit Court—the second at New York—had been | . sustained more times than it : had been reversed. It received |. ‘11 reversals and was upheld 12 i times. a The Third Chreult "Court: for s€v- , | eral years has been ihe subject of Ad- - ministration criticism as “the most reactionary in the country.” Until. three retirements this spring, all of © its members were more than 70 years old. Its senior and presiding judge, Joseph Buffington, appointed in 1906, / will be 83 in September. He retired ae 34. Judges J. Whitaker Thomp- ». son, 71, and Victor B. Wooley, 77, re- # tired in April. The complete record: Court Reversed Affirmed Dismissed First (Boston de Becond (New York) a fe | Bair Third | (Phils’phia) ag trite 3 ' Sixth i Seventh : u Ninth 14 Tenth “ ae cowetene gga . * U. &. Court of Appeals For D. af € Among major cases in which the Philadelphia court was rebuffed were: The Metropolitan Edison Co, case— - the Supreme Court held that it had , acted outside its jurisdiction in en- joining the progress of a hearing be- fore the Federal Power Commission, The Pennsylvania Greyhound case —the Supreme Court sustained a Na- tional Labor Relations Board order directing the company to withdraw all recognition from company-doml- nated union. The National Grocery Co. casé—a 50 act penalty tax on the com-- pany Was sustained, 1 Helvpring | V. carer hes. preme''Court sustained the po | the Fojeral Government to imp income tax upon an attorney, em- ployed by the Pennsylvania banking ‘| department in liquidating banks. The Republic steel case—it was held that the NLRB was entitled to vacate am order holding the company guilty i{ of law violation. - fare Te Nr. Ege... . Mr. Glavia.. oo. Mr. Harbo Mr. Lester“, Me. Mefntirg, Mr, Nichols. iM. Tracy. Riise Gandy.