ABSTRACT
In the Economic issues, the most significant landmark ultimately revised the role of the Court and its priorities. The nature and scope of regulation grew dramatically, but the Supreme Court's allocation of agenda space to State Regulation cases declined precipitously. State Regulation is composed of judicial responses to the regulatory and taxation policies of state and municipal governments. There are three large categories of cases within the State Regulation policy area: the scope of public service commissions, state taxation, and state licensing. The creation of specialized tax courts could reduce the litigation coming to the Supreme Court by providing an alternative forum. The declines in the agenda space allocated to Internal Revenue cases paralleled the change that created the Tax Court of the United States out of the Board of Tax Appeals. The Court's Internal Revenue agenda declined dramatically despite the perceived environmental trends.
