Quotes About Litigation

We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.

The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Barbra Streisand, Bruce Springsteen, these are just some of the people who threatened to sue if we used their songs.

When you're thrust into litigation, you obviously have to make sure you're prepared to deal with that.

As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

The law will argue any thing, with any body who will pay the law for the use of its brains and its time.

A lawsuit is the suicide of time.

I am actually for the first time looking forward to a litigation.

Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued.

I don't believe the 'Evening Pulpit' can prove it, — and I'm sure that they can't attempt to prove it without an expense of three or four thousand pounds. That's a game in which nobody wins but the lawyers. I wonder

In a word, do I have to tell you what sort of breed lawyers are?

Litigious terms, fat contentions, and flowing fees.

In handing down a ruling in Hedgepeth v. Washington Metro , Judge Roberts stated that "no one is very happy about the events that led to this litigation." Ansche Hedgepeth, he recounted, "was arrested, searched, and handcuffed. Her shoelaces were removed, and she was transported in the windowless rear compartment of a police vehicle to a juvenile processing center, where she was booked, fingerprinted

I've always hated litigation, and I continue to hate it.

Back in the mid-1980s, congressional hearings were held after we brought this litigation, and held up the first experiment. At that time, I went in front of Congress, along with the major agencies involved with this.

If we allow responsible management of our forests and end the nonsense litigation from radical environmental groups, we can get our timber mills up and running, reduce the risk of wildfires, and ensure healthier forests and cleaner air.

Forty states have sued tobacco companies over the costs of health care for residents on Medicaid and public assistance.

I've always had an affinity for lawyers. My dad is a lawyer. He's retired now. My brother is a lawyer.

Did you ever hear of a congress of lawyers for simplifying the law and discouraging litigation? What

The average doctor in a high-risk practice like surgery or obstetrics is sued about once every six years. Seventy percent of the time, the suit is either dropped by the plaintiff or won by the doctor in court. But the cost of defense is high, and when doctors lose, the average jury verdict is half a million dollars. General

litigation has proved to be a singularly unsatisfactory solution. It is expensive, drawn out, and painfully adversarial. It helps very few people.

In biblical times, Hope was an Oasis in the Desert. In medieval days, a shack free of Plague. Today, Hope is no longer a place for contemplation—litigation being the preferred new order of the day.

Most lawsuits against the EPA historically have come either because of the agency's lack of regard for a statute or because the EPA failed in an obligation or deadline.

My job is to enforce the laws as passed by whom? Congress. They give me my authority. That's the jurisdictional responsibilities that I have, and when litigation is used to regulate... that's abusive. That's wrong.