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reverse?
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JUDGE BRUNE : Well, it probably reduces the
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workload slightly. How, there was a theory, I believe,
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that when tho court was increased from five to seven, that
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the workload on each judge would be decreased by about
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40 per cent as a matter of arithmetic. That simply isn't
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so, because every member of the court regularly reads
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every opinion prepared in every case , whether he did
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participate in the decision of that case or not. He
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attended the conference on every case, and he expounded
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any views that he had on the case, or raised any ques-
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tions that he had, and I observed at the time some of the
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most helpful suggestions came from those who had not
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participated in hearing the argument, but the time
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that it takes for that sort cf work means that any saving
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by reason of their being a larger court, with only a part
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of it sitting, is slight and it doesn't approach the order
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of 400 per cent. I couldn't give you an exact figure.
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Now, a court of five can deliberate and roach
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a conclusion, I think, a little more rapidly, and I think
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quite effectively as the larger court. It probably isn't
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