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Quotes About Cases

In the cases that come before the Department of Justice involving a wide range of unlawful activities, we see repeated evidence of family and community failures.
~ Robert Kennedy
While our amplified knowledge of genetics - and the increasing precision of the field - does make it tempting to take on celebrity cases, retro-genetics can't always provide clear answers.
~ Sam Kean
The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in recent years is that above the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a concrete display of the Ten Commandments.
~ Cliff Stearns
I tend to watch a little TV... Court TV, once in a while. Some of the cases I get interested in.
~ O. J. Simpson
First off, we've had sworn testimony from soldiers and testimony before our staff that wasn't sworn, that said these alarms rarely went off, that they went off after the war in most cases and went off a lot.
~ Christopher Shays
Presidents routinely testify in criminal cases. You know, George W. Bush did it with Valerie Plame. Bill Clinton did it three times with Ken Starr. Gerald Ford did it with respect to a testimony about a Charles Manson follower. And Ronald Reagan, I think, is perhaps the most important precedent.
~ Neal Katyal
And how many cases where no one came back, making nothing to remark? No tale worth repeating? One hundred to one? Five hundred to one? The exception always gets more attention than the rule. I'm not sure you should race off down this road too quickly.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
He preferred compromise to antitrust cases, which were slow, time-consuming, and fiendishly difficult to win.
~ Ron Chernow
But in spite of numerous scattered cases of rival refiners getting comparable rebates, no other firm received so many rebates so consistently over so many years or on such a colossal scale as Rockefeller's.
~ Ron Chernow
ME, pro. The objectionable case of I. The personal pronoun in English has three cases, the dominative, the objectionable and the oppressive. Each is all three.
~ Ambrose Bierce
A lot of the evidence and some of the events you see in LA Justice are loosely based on real-life cases.
~ Christopher Darden
There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
As we will see in several cases, it was my unwillingness to do what the client wanted that led to real help.
~ Edgar H Schein
In the months that followed he brought a rapid succession of cases to court—as he recalled, "smelling somewhat of midnight oil.
~ Anthony Everitt
One thing I know from personal experience, judges hate it when parties talk publicly about their cases. There are a lot of things about our criminal legal system that need to be changed, and this is just one of them. Prosecutors know how to play the press. Most defendants don't.
~ Michael Arrington
Since the era of 'Sherlock Holmes,' private detectives had long been able to influence cases on their own. But the online detective, who had no sort of professional training or even long practice, is a purely modern phenomenon. The Internet changed everything by letting anyone become a self-appointed 'expert' on a case.
~ Michelle Dean
This was law? she thought. Where was the excitement of court cases, the challenge of defending the people that her father was always talking about? This was no fun at all.
~ Francine Pascal
At police headquarters they found Chief Collig at the teletype machine, scanning the latest reports. "Hi, fellows," he greeted them, sitting back in his chair. He was a vigorous, middle-aged man with iron-gray hair, who worked closely with the Hardys on their various cases. "What's up?
~ Franklin W. Dixon
It was the separation of powers upon which the framers placed their hopes for the preservation of the people's liberties. Despite this heritage, the congress has been in too many cases more than willing to walk away from its constitutional powers.
~ Robert Byrd
I don't think that the Supreme Court really takes cases with kind of a theme in mind. They get about 10,000 requests a year, and what are called 'petitions for certiorari,' which are essentially 30 page documents which say, 'Hey, Court, hear my case.' And they don't take very many of them.
~ Neal Katyal
Já agora creio que não basta que os pregões de rua, como os opúsculos de seminário, encerrem casos, pessoas e sensações; é preciso que a gente os tenha conhecido e padecido no tempo, sem o que tudo é calado e incolor.
~ Machado de Assis
Os exemplos não se fizeram senão para ser citados.
~ Machado de Assis
Father Lopes confessed he had never imagined that so many madmen, and such mysterious cases of madness, could exist in the world.
~ Machado de Assis
and unruly. Adversaries were sometimes in T-shirts, eating watermelon or sharing a bottle of scotch. In rare cases
~ Malcolm Gladwell