Quotes About Court

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

If you look at Griswold, what you can see is the first time the Court recognized the right to privacy, which ends up becoming ultimately the right to abortion.

A man up in front of a judge says "I don't recognise this court." "Why not?" "It's been redecorated since the last time I was here."

The time has come for professional jurors.

The same June court session also annulled Ralph and Katherine Ellenwood's marriage due to his "insuffiency." Katherine declared that she "would rather die than live with this man," whereas Ralph was reported to have blamed his problem on the presence of witches in the neighborhood.)

CHAPTER LXIX SCROBBY'S TRIAL

One feature of the trial – as with all other trials – was of course the fact that the jury consisted entirely of Protestants, Catholics being debarred from jury service.

She has something else - a great deal else, said Alice Perrers' soft laughing voice from the corner, and if you ladies are too stupid to see it, the men won't be. Thanks to God that the King is short-sighted, I can fill his entire vision - and shall.

I was expecting a rather long visit to Bankruptcy Court at the time, and this interruption seemed almost providential.

You will like Court life, I promise," she said, smiling sweetly as we went out of the parlor. I took care to walk behind her so she could not see my face.

But I'll still be betrothed. Some fun if he's a snob, and most of those court boys are snobs. And what if Uncle says I have to live with the boy's family? At least if he joins ours, I can stick him in the farthest room and pretend he isn't here.

You might contemplate the purpose of a court…" You brainless, twaddling idiot, I thought scornfully. I wished he were before me. I wished I could personally flout him and his busy searchers, and make him look like the fool he was. And watch the reaction, and walk away laughing.

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

judges in seventeenth-century France were discouraged from socializing on the grounds that friends and acquaintances might one day be called before the court.

Ah Gawaine, Gawaine, ye have betrayed me; for never shall my court be amended by you, but ye will never be sorry for me as I am for you

Un processo è sempre breve quando un giudice ha già pronunziato in anticipo la sentenza

I've never known an honest man who can plead so well for any plea whatever.

Justice is blind, but judges have eyes.

Before the starry threshold of Jove's CourtMy mansion is.

Litigious terms, fat contentions, and flowing fees.

While American democracy is imperfect, few outside the majority of this court would have thought its flaws included a dearth of corporate money in politics.

you might have some funny charges, if you like.

Under such a unified court structure, author Jerome R. Corsi foresees an immediate challenge to First Amendment free speech laws, as well as the Second Amendment's right to bear arms. As he explains in Human Events

for places in the court are but like beds in the hospital, where this man's head lies at that man's foot, and so lower and lower.