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Quotes About Lawsuits

Kluger notes that these cases arguably amount to "personal injury claims in disguise," and that the Supreme Court has ruled that federal cigarette-labeling laws are an effective shield against such claims. Logically, in other words, the states ought to be suing smokers, not cigarette makers. And perhaps smokers, in turn, ought to be suing Social Security and private pension funds for all the money they'll save by dying early.
~ Jonathan Franzen
Derringer, who invented the gun that killed Lincoln, made as much money in lawsuits as he did selling guns.
~ A.A. Gill
Frivolous lawsuits are booming in this county. The U.S. has more costs of litigation per person than any other industrialized nation in the world, and it is crippling our economy.
~ Jack Kingston
The Transatlantic and Transpacific Trade and Investment Partnerships have nothing to do with free trade. 'Free trade' is used as a disguise to hide the power these agreements give to corporations to use lawsuits to overturn sovereign laws of nations that regulate pollution, food safety, GMOs, and minimum wages.
~ Paul Craig Roberts
Most of the men that sue in Hollywood are all about 5' 2'. They wake up every day, know they're tiny and feel very angry about it, so they go out and sue people.
~ Piers Morgan
I never sue journalists. I employ journalists. I employ too many of them. I don't sue journalists.
~ Felix Dennis
It's better to make fun of yourself because you've always got someone around to make fun of, and they can't sue you.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
'Sue and settle' involves the creation of environmental rules and regulations through lawsuits filed by environmental groups against the EPA, not through Congress or proper rule-making.
~ Scott Pruitt
The more money you make, the more times people sue you.
~ Rick Harrison
I mean, comics fear sue - you know, lawsuits and stuff like that, just because they don't like to do paperwork.
~ Ralphie May
After Scour, I started a company called Red Swoosh. The idea was to take those litigants who sued us for a huge amount of money and turn them into customers with the same technology. I wanted to get them to pay me. It was a revenge business.
~ Travis Kalanick
We rarely sue anyone, but, like others in the real estate industry, we get sued.
~ Alan Casden
I've had more paternity suits than casual suits.
~ Engelbert Humperdinck
We should not burden a sitting president with civil suits, criminal investigations, or criminal prosecutions.
~ Brett Kavanaugh
When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
~ Aristophanes
Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.
~ Isaac Newton
I think big data companies only like good news. So I think they're just hoping that they don't get sued, essentially.
~ Cathy O'Neil
By 2005, Monsanto had filed ninety lawsuits against U.S. farmers for patent infringement, meaning GM genes found in the fields of farmers that had not paid for the right, and Monsanto had been awarded over $15 million. I'll tell you here and now: We have a screwed-up justice system. These lawsuits and seeds are nothing less than corporate extortion of American farmers, said Andrew Kimbrell, director of the Center for Food Safety, as reported in the Seed Savers Summer Edition 2005.
~ Janisse Ray
I know from my own experience that lawsuits can be a very slow, wasteful, and needlessly acrimonious way to resolve a problem.
~ Richard Cordray
Creating legislation is a tough process. But watering down legislation? Strangling it with lawsuits and comment letters and blue-ribbon committees? Not so tough, it turns out.
~ Matt Taibbi
If the League were real, today, they'd most likely be sued by every person they ever saved. They'd be subpoenaed by every authority in every jurisdiction imaginable; hearings upon hearings. There'd be waves of accolades followed by tsunamis of boos from social media.
~ Christopher Priest
As we will soon see, it is not clear that patients gain a lot from the right to sue. At the same time, part of the current cost is passed onto patients, in the form of higher bills, and defensive medicine can be bad medicine for those who want good care.
~ Richard H. Thaler
This legislation will end the tsunami of false marking lawsuits, according to many experts. It's a win for all corporations that make products. It's a win for the American economy."
~ Yar Chaikovsky
Avoid lawsuits beyond all things they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
~ Jean de la Bruyere