The Nation - News from Feb. 11, 1987
Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor said the high court is stretched to its limit and that Congress will have to find a way to ease its workload. “The court is operating, in my view, at maximum capacity now by taking some 150 cases a year for plenary review,” O’Connor said in a speech to the Cleveland City Club. O’Connor said the Supreme Court picks those 150 cases from 4,000 applications for review from cases generated by state supreme courts and the 13 federal appeals courts.
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