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Quotes About Court

Rankings, for most players, are like adversity because we all want to be the best. So you've just got to approach it like you would a tough situation on the court. You just have to respond.
~ Jahlil Okafor
I believe Judge Kavanaugh will be a justice whose adherence to the Constitution and the rule of law will be a credit to the Court and all Americans.
~ Cindy Hyde-Smith
When a federal court issues an order against enforcement of a government policy, the ruling traditionally applies only to the plaintiff in that case.
~ William Barr
We think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. We know the court that made it has often overruled its own decisions, and we shall do what we can to have it overrule this.
~ Abraham Lincoln
On the left side of the court, I am in paradise.
~ Jack Sock
I notice that freedom of expression of an E.U. member of Parliament who denounces the actions of ISIS allows the French government to take her to court.
~ Marine Le Pen
Our Parliamentary system has simply failed to meet the challenge of judicial activism.
~ Stockwell Day
North Carolina wants its judges to be fair and impartial, and partisan politics has no place on the judges' bench.
~ Roy Cooper
As Eusebius recounted the story, Constantine seemed to believe there was a basic incompatibility between being an emperor and being a Christian, between court and church, warfare and prayer, the purple and the white. It would be an ironic conclusion: Constantine, the first anti-Constantinian. Constantine the Yoderian
~ Peter Leithart
she was very fast and she was able to elude the zombies by running around the block and then back to the court house where another zombie in the shredded-up uniform of a county sheriff had been on its hands and knees, eating the white-heads off the clovers. It hadn't seen her before and she didn't see it, now.
~ Peter Meredith
At home we can say to our ladies: 'I love you', or to our native earth. It means we rejoice in their lives....Love must be free, or else it alters away. Command it to your court: it will send a deputy.
~ Peter Shaffer
It is a foolish judge who, before the evidence is presented, makes a judgement.
~ Peter Tremayne
The juror selection was a slow, tedious process. It bored Richard, and he soon began falling asleep. He'd stay up late at night reading and would be tired for court. Judge Tynan didn't like his sleeping and warned him to stay awake. Richard took to wearing large black Porsche-type sunglasses, also bought by Doreen, so he could close his eyes behind them.
~ Philip Carlo
Daniel Hernandez told Judge Tynan that Richard didn't want to attend the jury selection; Tynan said that he had to, whether he wanted to or not.
~ Philip Carlo
The Hernandezes asked to be allowed to read the charges before Richard entered a plea. The judge called for a short adjournment to give Daniel and Arturo the opportunity to go over the particulars of the complaint. As Richard was led back to the holding pen, he shouted, "Hail, Satan," again throwing the court into a tizzy. The Hernandezes said they hadn't heard it, but the court stenographer heard him clearly and she put it in the record—"Hail, Satan.
~ Philip Carlo
Carlo: Yeah. You were seen in court once with a Pentagram inside your hand and you held it up and showed it to the press and the audience. Why did you do that? Did you feel that it would protect you, or were you just making a statement that you were in alliance with the Devil? Ramirez: Yes, it was a statement that I was in alliance with ... the evil that is inherent in human nature. And ... that was who I was.
~ Philip Carlo
On all the important decisions, Judge Nelson ruled against the defense: he allowed in the evidence recovered from the bus station and from Richard's car and his sister Ruth's house.
~ Philip Carlo
On May 21, Ramirez was back in court.
~ Philip Carlo
Tynan gave the defense two weeks to prepare their case and set a firm court date of May 1 to begin.
~ Philip Carlo
When court resumed, Clark told the judge Richard had changed his mind and was now thinking about putting on a "limited defense," but he wanted to speak with Dr. Dimitrius. Reluctantly, Tynan agreed to give the defense until morning to decide what direction they were going to take.
~ Philip Carlo
Halpin finished his summation on July 21. The people had presented 139 witnesses and 537 pieces of evidence.
~ Philip Carlo
On August 14, juror Phyllis Singletary didn't show up. Judge Tynan brought the jury into court and told the jury they couldn't continue without Ms. Singletary and court was recessed to the following day. In fact the judge had learned that Ms. Singletary had been found murdered.
~ Philip Carlo
On the day of sentencing, the defense announced they would not be putting any witnesses on the stand on the defendant's behalf, calling it "a tactical decision." Richard would not be taking the stand, either.
~ Philip Carlo
An exaggerated clitoris might even drive a woman to an elephant.' This remark – unprecedented in the courts of British justice – elicited loud laughter.
~ Philip Hoare