Quotes About Litigation

Legal action is but warfare disguised.

Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.

Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.

Lawsuit, n. a machine which you go into as a pig and come out as a sausage.

We copied laws and regulations from western countries, but enforcement remains weak, and environmental litigation is still quite near impossible.

In 2009, UnitedHealth, a leading insurance company, paid $350 million to settle lawsuits brought by the American Medical Association and other physician groups for shortchanging consumers and physicians for medical services outside its preferred network.

It's such a dangerous thing for desperation to drive litigation.

The road to recovery is to stimulate small business and innovation by reducing taxation, regulation, and litigation.

Those jobs flee other states because of factors like excessive taxation, punitive regulation and frivolous lawsuits.

Less regulation plus less taxation plus less litigation always equals more innovation and job creation.

Tell the trial lawyers to get out of your state and to quit costing businessmen and women.

than 3,500 lawsuits in his life. That's almost 50 lawsuits a year, since birth.

law is enforced the way the law is written; it's not about true justice, it's about interpretation of the law and who has the best lawyer.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser - in fees, expenses, and waste of time. As a peacemaker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

T]he candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the Government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically re-signed their Government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.

In the courtroom, it's where a lawyer really becomes an actor. There's a very fine line between delivering a monologue in a play and delivering a monologue to a jury. I've always felt that way - I've been in a lot of courtrooms. The best lawyers are really theatrical.

The courts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputes begins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternative methods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

In a litigation-happy society, clear agreements often prevent small disagreements from becoming big ones.

Lawsuits prod companies to make their products safer.

A defendant can use discovery to run out the clock on the plaintiff and to make the plaintiff run out of money.

Well, I - all cases to me have interest. Every case is important to somebody, the people litigating that case. But the most difficult case for me is the case where one person says a, the other person says b, and you just don't know for certain who is not telling you the truth.

For the record, he professed great respect for Isaac Hewitt, twenty-five years his senior, but he was much more caustic in private, referring to him as a "disgruntled" man, forever entangled in litigation.