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Show NEW SITU EWE COTRT KCLF.S. Dc.lf ued to Meet Ca... Brought f the Purpoi. of Delay. Wasthxgtov. D. C, Jan. 27. Tba United Statos Supreme court announced some important changes in its rules, designed to meet cases brought before the court principally for the purpose of delay. The changes are framed especially espec-ially to meet habea; corpus cases, and are the result of the proceedings recently re-cently in the Jugiro electrocution case. The most important change is a requirement re-quirement I hat all appeals, writs of error and citations, unless specially ordered or-dered otherwise, must be made returnable return-able to the supreme court within not exceeding thirty days from the decision of the lower courts. Unless the record in the case is docketed within the specified speci-fied time the case must be dismissed by the court if in session, and by the clerk during vacation time. |