Quotes About Plaintiffs

If everyone on the Court always voted for the prosecution against the defendant, for the corporation against the plaintiffs, and for the government against the condemned, a vital spark of American democracy would be extinguished.

On December 20, 2005, Judge John E. Jones III, appointed by President George W. Bush, with the strong endorsement of Pennsylvania's staunch conservative senator Rick Santorum, ruled for our plaintiffs in a superbly written 139-page opinion that shocked many observers.

Judge Raymond J. Brassard was a Republican appointee and not considered particularly favorable to plaintiffs' attorneys.

Andrew Bennet's relatives in the Midwest, the same relatives who hadn't spoken with him in years, were said to be sorting through the résumés of plaintiffs' lawyers, some of whom had flown across country to pitch their services and try to convince the family that death could be an economically prosperous event.

You're not allowed to recruit plaintiffs, they're supposed to come to you." "Oh really, Pollyanna?" Machiavelli rolled his eyes. "Tell that to the class-action bar.

I have numerous people who have expressed a willingness to be plaintiffs.

He wondered, often, what it would look like if and when the shit in question hit the fan: The stock market at bottom was rigged. The icon of global capitalism was a fraud. How would enterprising politicians and plaintiffs' lawyers and state attorneys general respond to that news?