For the first time in history a woman is appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, where she becomes a friendly rival to a liberal associate.

Walter Matthau
as Dan Snow

Jill Clayburgh
as Ruth Loomis

Barnard Hughes
as Chief Justice Crawford

Jan Sterling
as Christine Snow

James Stephens
as Mason Woods

Joshua Bryant
as Bill Russell

Wiley Harker
as Justice Harold Webb

F.J. O'Neil
as Justice Waldo Thompson

Charles Lampkin
as Justice Josiah Clewes

Lew Palter
as Justice Benjamin Halperin