The beginning of the end of network television’s effort to dramatize the Supreme Court may have come in early April. It was during an episode of ABC’s “The Court” with Sally Field-one of the three episodes that aired before the series was canceled.
The justice Field played and her industrious law clerks suddenly discovered a flaw in the record of a case that was being hotly debated at the Court. In a frenzied minute of dialogue, clerks fretted aloud more than once that the Court might have to “dig” the case, an unexplained but seemingly cataclysmic fate. Finally, for the benefit of anyone in the audience who might still be listening, someone explained what “dig” meant: it was an acronym for “dismissed as improvidently granted.”
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