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I do not apologize for these terms or, more generally, for discussing judicial thinking in a vocabulary alien to most judges and lawyers. Judicial behavior cannot be understood in the vocabulary that judges themselves use, sometimes mischievously. (11) By Richard A. Posner Generally Lawyers Judicial Vocabulary Judges

The U.S. legal system is organized as an adversarial contest: in civil cases, between two citizens; in criminal cases, between a citizen and the state. Physical violence and intimidation are not allowed in court, whereas aggressive argument, selective presentation of the facts, and psychological attack are permitted, with the presumption that this ritualized, hostile encounter offers the best method of arriving at the truth. By Judith Lewis Herman Cases Legal Contest State Citizens

Theft of the Courtauld's signature By Daniel Silva Courtauld Theft Signature

A judge's duty is to grant justice, but his practice is to delay it: even those judges who know their duty adhere to the general practice. By Jean De La Bruyere Justice Duty Practice Grant Delay

The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a court-room, be heany colour of the rainbow, but people have way to carrying their resentments right into a jury box. By Harper Lee Courtroom Rainbow Box Place Man

I love being in a courtroom. By Kamala Harris Courtroom Love

Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America. By Warren E. Burger Justice Concepts Cost Hands Feet

I'm an old trial lawyer. By Patrick Leahy Lawyer Trial

You can, if you wish, think of it like the universe: Each case is a sun, and all the judges, lawyers and administrative personnel represent planets revolving around the case in fixed orbit, never getting closer. By Sol Wachtler Case Universe Sun Judges Lawyers

Being a member of the court is a lot like walking through fresh concrete. Do you remember doing that as a child and leaving a footprint and it hardens after you? I'm afraid that's what we do and we look back and we see those opinions we've written and they've sort of hardened after us. By Sandra Day O'connor Concrete Member Court Lot Walking

Every court of criminal justice must have the power of correcting the greatest and dangerous of all abuses of the forms of law - that of the protracted imprisonment of the accused, untried, perhaps not intended ever to be tried, it may be, not informed of the nature of the charge against him, or the name of the accuser. By David Hume Untried Law Accused Accuser Court

Being a judge is sometimes like raising children: litigants get the time they need, not necessarily the time they want, and you have to earn people's respect by communicating to them that you're going to listen, follow the law and make a fair decision. By Steven Pacey Time Children Litigants Listen Follow

Justice is putting everything in its proper place By Ali Ibn Abi Talib Justice Place Putting Proper

When did the defendant first By Robert Harris Defendant

with perfect posture - shoulders back, gaze ahead - but her feet felt unsteady beneath her. The defendant. For three weeks, everyone in this courtroom had referred to her as "the defendant." Not Casey. Not her given name, Katherine Carter. Certainly not Mrs. Hunter Raleigh III, the name she would have taken by now if everything had been different. In this room, she'd been treated as a legal term, not as a real person, a person who had loved Hunter more deeply than she'd ever thought possible. When the judge gazed down from By Mary Higgins Clark Defendant Posture Shoulders Back Gaze

There is a court to which I shall appeal: the court of public opinion. By Charles Bradlaugh Appeal Opinion Court Public

In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world. By Renata Adler Litigation Things World Strange Heat

[S]ome score of members of the High Court of Chancery bar ought to be as here they are mistily engaged in one of the ten thousand stages of an endless cause, tripping one another up on slippery precedents, groping knee-deep in technicalities, running their goat-hair and horse-hair warded heads against walls of words, and making a pretence of equity with serious faces ... By Charles Dickens High Court Chancery Ome Tripping

There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court. By Clarence Darrow Justice Court Thing

Who judges the judge who judges wrong? By Gail Carson Levine Wrong Judges Judge

THE COURT I'm going to get some coffee. You guys can keep arguing. It doesn't have an effect on me. By Charles M. Sevilla Court Coffee Arguing Guys Effect

At Court, every one for himselfe.[At court, everyone for himself.] By George Herbert Court Himselfe

The world is a courtroom, but your life is the judge. By Uche Okafor Courtroom Judge World Life

Justice by Attrition turns courthouses like this giant complex on Schermerhorn Street into huge fun houses of unreasonableness and mindless punishment, where you can peek into just about any room and find someone absolutely beside himself with disbelief over what is happening to him. By Matt Taibbi Attrition Schermerhorn Street Justice Punishment

I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers. By Alexander Pope Affairs Debts Prayers Born Courts

There is hardly any political question in the United States that sooner or later does not turn into a judicial question. From that, the obligation that the parties find in their daily polemics to borrow ideas and language from the judicial system. Since most public men are or have formerly been jurists, they make the habits and the turn of ideas that belong to jurists pass into the handling of public affairs. The jury ends up by familiarizing all classes with them. Thus, judicial language becomes, in a way, the common language; so the spirit of the jurist, born inside the schools and courtrooms, spreads little by little beyond their confines; it infiltrates all of society, so to speak; it descends to the lowest ranks, and the entire people finishes by acquiring a part of the habits and tastes of the magistrate. By Alexis De Tocqueville Question United States Judicial Language

Now I have been studying very closely what happens every day in the courts in Boston, Massachusetts. You would be astoundedmaybe you wouldn't, maybe you have been around, maybe you have lived, maybe you have thought, maybe you have been hitat how the daily rounds of injustice make their way through this marvelous thing that we call due process. By Howard Zinn Massachusetts Boston Studying Closely Day

The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality; a sort of glorified accounting that serves to regulate the affairs of those who have powerand that all too often seeks to explain, to those who do not, the ultimate wisdom and justness of their condition.But that's not all the law is. The law is also memory; the law also records a long-running conversation, a nation arguing with its conscience. By Barack Obama Law Times Reality Explain Study

Thou knowest not the endless artifices of a court. Invented crimes are often there alleged; but real ones, and those especially, which may offend his pride, are oftentimes not to a king divulged. By Vittorio Alfieri Thou Court Knowest Endless Artifices

A court is like a scene, people want to see attractive people. By Anna Kournikova Scene People Court Attractive

To laugh, to lie, to flatter, to face: Four ways in court to win man's grace. By Roger Ascham Laugh Lie Flatter Face Grace

I have a pretty good record of winning in court. By Jan Brewer Court Pretty Good Record Winning

I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked. By Alphonse Karr Yesterday Gather Lawyer Rehearsal Hope

A defendant on trial for a specific crime is entitled to his day in court, not in a stadium or a city or nationwide arena. By Tom C. Clark Court Arena Defendant Trial Specific

Courtrooms contain every symbol of authority that a set designer could imagine. Everyone stands up when you come in. You wear a costume identifying you as, if not quite divine, someone special. By Irving R. Kaufman Courtrooms Imagine Symbol Authority Set

If you're dealing with criminals, they're not going to want to go to court. By Paul Watson Criminals Court Dealing

When you come in to court as a plaintiff or as a defendant, it is terribly important that you look up at the bench and feel that that person represents you and will understand you, that that person is reflective of our community and of our society. By Michael Bloomberg Person Defendant Society Court Plaintiff

Church and court, it's all the same - pews, a throne, a God, the accused. By Mitchell S. Jackson Pews God Church Court Throne

One is either judge or accused. The judge sits, the accused stands. Live on your feet. By Jean Cocteau Judge Accused Sits Stands Live

Three features mark the Anglo-American system as different from all others. One is the extent to which our law is formed in litigation. Another feature is the way we conduct these cases: we pit antagonists against each other, to cast up from their struggles the material of decisions. A third- and largest in the public consciousness- is the trial by jury. By Charles Rembar Mark Angloamerican System Litigation Features

The courts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputes begins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternative methods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried. By Sandra Day O'connor Places Disputes Begins Courts Country

They speak to each other through the magistrate, like warring children communicating through a parent, their words are extravagantly emotive illustrated with flamboyant gestures that are wasted on the empty court room By Clare Mackintosh Magistrate Parent Room Speak Warring

The trial of a case is a three-legged stool - a judge and two advocates. By Warren E. Burger Stool Advocates Trial Case Threelegged

The judge decided in this case that both the state and the defense would have the opportunity to respond to certain kinds of press. This is one such instance. By Catherine Crier Press Judge Decided Case State

In every Court, ample and commodious provision is made for the accommodation of the citizens. This is the case all through America. In every Public Institution, the right of the people to attend, and to have an interest in the proceedings, is most fully and distinctly recognised. There are no grim door-keepers to dole out their tardy civility by the sixpenny-worth; nor is there, I sincerely believe, any insolence of office of any kind. Nothing national is exhibited for money; and no public officer is a showman. We have begun of late years to imitate this good example. I hope we shall continue to do so; and that in the fulness of time, even deans and chapters may be converted. By Charles Dickens Court Ample Citizens Commodious Provision

Looks like he's dressed for court. By Cm Punk Court Dressed

The courtroom is one instance of the fact that while our society may be liberal and democratic in some large and vague sense, its moving parts, its smaller chambersits classrooms, its workplaces, its corporate boardrooms, its jails, its military barracksare flagrantly undemocratic, dominated by one commanding person or a tiny elite of power. By Howard Zinn Sense Parts Classrooms Workplaces Boardrooms

Historically, the court has been the forum to which individuals can turn when they believed their constitutional rights were violated. This has been especially noteworthy in the arena of civil rights. By Dianne Feinstein Historically Violated Court Forum Individuals

There is one court whose findings are incontrovertible, and whose sessions are held in the chambers of our own breast. By Hosea Ballou Incontrovertible Breast Court Findings Sessions

The rules and principles of case law have never been treated as final truths but as working hypotheses, continually retested in those great laboratories of the law, the courts of justice. Every new case is an experiment, and if the accepted rule which seems applicable yields a result which is felt to be unjust, the rule is reconsidered. By Benjamin N. Cardozo Law Hypotheses Continually Justice Rule

When I was in court I was the judge; when I was out of court I wasn't. Most people didn't address me as judge when I was in public. By Steven Pacey Court Judge Public People Address

Judgment does not necessarily relate to the judiciary system By Sunday Adelaja Judgment System Necessarily Relate Judiciary

Thus went my first Court Day.I think i'm going to puke. By Tamora Pierce Court Puke Dayi

They've come to overthrow the court, sir! By Samuel Parris Sir Court Overthrow

The law is a crude machine at best, and only spits out something approaching justice of its attendants are committed to justice. As lawyering has become less about doing right and more about doing what you can get away with, our standards of acceptable shenanigans-as-usual seem to be in a free fall. By Holman W. Jenkins Jr. Justice Law Crude Machine Spits

When thou goest with thine adversary to the magistrate, as thou art in the way, give diligence that thou mayest be delivered from him; lest he hale thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and the officer cast thee into prison. By Paulo Coelho Thee Thou Judge Officer Magistrate

for an informed judgment By Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Judgment Informed

Let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly. By Plato Justly Speaker Speak Judge Decide

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. By Groucho Marx Judge Married Jury Asked

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has. By Raymond Chandler Kind Lawyer Hope Fellow

I tend to watch a little TV ... Court TV, once in a while. Some of the cases I get interested in. By O.j. Simpson Tend Watch Court Cases Interested

Judge said, what you got in your defense son? Fifty-seven channels and nothing on. By Bruce Springsteen Judge Son Defense Fiftyseven Channels

A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers. By H.l. Mencken Papers Judge Law Student Marks

Indeed, the Judges in the courts of law are more likely to be exposed to conflicts and disputes where the utility of law is at its highest realm where interpretation takes the fore wheel. It is in the courts, that failure to implement the law repercussions come up in the form of disputes and conflicts and where the judges are expected to deliver their best within the precincts of the law. By Henrietta Newton Martin Law Judges Courts Conflicts Disputes

Law and the Classes of Society, Judge By Stephen King Judge Society Classes Law

Before, mostly for commitment hearings held in a makeshift court By Jean Hanff Korelitz Court Commitment Hearings Held Makeshift

Private courts, Gloomy as coffins, and unsightly lanes Thrilled by some female vendor's scream, belike The very shrillest of all London cries, May then entangle our impatient steps; Conducted through those labyrinths, unawares, To privileged regions and inviolate, Where from their airy lodges studious lawyers Look out on waters, walks, and gardens green. By William Wordsworth Unawares Walks Gloomy Conducted Thrilled

The duty of a judge is to administer justice, but his practice is to delay it By Jean De La Bruyere Justice Duty Judge Administer Practice

No other profession is subject to the public contempt and derision that sometimes befalls lawyers. the bitter fruit of public incomprehension of the law itself and its dynamics. By Irving Kaufman Lawyers Public Profession Subject Contempt

It is when the colors do not match, when the references in the index fail, when there is no decisive precedent, that the serious business of the judge begins By Benjamin Cardozo Match Fail Precedent Begins Colors

into the cell, put the basket down upon the magistrate's By Robert Mccammon Cell Put Magistrate Basket

The fundamental question Juvenile Court was designed to ask - What's the best way to deal with this individual kid? - is often lost in the process, replaced by a point system that opens the door, or locks it, depending on the qualities of the crime, not the child. By Edward Humes Juvenile Court Kid Fundamental Question

This isn't a courtroom, pal," I said to Nelson, "this is the gutter. No fancy robes, no platitudes engraved in marble, no brass railing dividing the sides. This is the streets and the alleys. this is the Chicago we really live in. Here justice isn't dispensed with a wooden gavel, it's taken with your bare hands. It may be Tubby's world, a part of it, but it's also August Jansen's world, and my world, and yours. Darrow's a great man but this work comes after the fact, after the real battles of life are fought. Lawyers and judges pick up the pieces after the dust settles. Their job is to make sense of what's happened, not make it happen. That occurs in the gutter where blood and bone and horse manure and coal dust and sweat and fear blend and roil. In the end you either have hope or sewage. It can go either way, but it goes on. By James Conroy Nelson Pal World Courtroom Gutter

Impressive," Court offered, gallantly bending to retrieve the shoe. "You should join the theater.""Fuck you.""I owed you that.""Revenge is a dish best served with a side of handcuffs and a hard ass-fucking. Remember that."Really is a dirty fighter. Goddamn. By Finn Marlowe Court Impressive Offered Gallantly Shoe

The land of litigation, the courts are like game shows. Take what's behind the curtain the jury cries. By Joni Mitchell Litigation Shows Land Courts Game

Even the wettest violence, in the end, is cooked down to the stuff of court cases; a ream of paper, a few exhibits, a dozen ... witnesses. The world looks away, and why not? By William Landay Witnesses Violence End Cases Paper

There are defendants whom the judges are afraid of. By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Defendants Judges Afraid

Justice is what the judge ate for breakfast. By Jerome Frank Justice Breakfast Judge Ate

The judge is nothing but the law speaking. By Benjamin Whichcote Speaking Judge Law

Oh, wise young judge. By Dodie Smith Wise Judge Young

History or custom or social utility or some compelling sense of justice or sometimes perhaps a semi-intuitive apprehension of the pervading spirit of our law must come to the rescue of the anxious judge and tell him where to go. By Benjamin N. Cardozo History Custom Social Utility Compelling

You will read in the newspaper more often about federal courts, but the law that affects people, the trials that affect human beings are by and large in the state courts. By Stephen Breyer Courts People Affects Affect Read

During a trial, boy, you think, eat, sleep and crap only the trial. By Kenneth Eade Boy Eat Trial Sleep Crap

What individual can so well assess the amount of damages which a plaintiff ought to recover for an injury he has received than an intelligent jury? By Henry Brougham, 1St Baron Brougham And Vaux Jury Individual Assess Amount Damages

Publicity is the very soul of justice. It is the keenest spur to exertion, and the surest of all guards against improbity. By Jeremy Bentham Publicity Justice Soul Exertion Improbity

We're lawyers. We present the arguments, and the court sorts out the merits. By David Boies Lawyers Arguments Merits Present Court

Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably. By Truman Capote Year American Fortune Chance Criminal

Have contempt for contempt. By Francis De Sales Contempt

The Court is perhaps one of the last citadels of jealously preserved individualism. For the most part, we function as nine, small independent law firms. By Colin Powell Court Individualism Citadels Jealously Preserved

Jury - A group of 12 people, who, having lied to the judge about their health, hearing, and business engagements, have failed to fool him. By H.l. Mencken Jury People Hearing Health Engagements

A court that wouldn't just change the world. It would start the world over. By Sarah J. Maas World Court Change Start

History is no criminal court By Leopold Von Ranke History Court Criminal

The notion that most people want black-robed judges, well-dressed lawyers and fine-paneled courtrooms as the setting to resolve their disputes is not correct. People with problems, like people with pains, want relief, and they want it as quickly and inexpensively as possible. By Warren E. Burger People Judges Welldressed Correct Notion

If the court wasn't ruled by emotions, we might as well not have lawyers or judges. Let machines do the work for us. By Anonymous Emotions Judges Court Ruled Lawyers

[T]he horrible thing about all legal officials, even the best, about all judges, magistrates, barristers, detectives, and policeman, is not that they are wicked (some of them are good), not that they are stupid (several of them are quite intelligent), it is simply that they have got used to it. Strictly they do not see the prisoner in the dock; all they see is the usual man in the usual place. They do not see the awful court of judgment; they only see their own workshop. By G.k. Chesterton Magistrates Barristers Detectives Officials Judges

Justice has taken its course and the authority and legitimacy of the legal process must be respected. By Kofi Annan Justice Respected Authority Legitimacy Legal

Where was the judge he'd never seen? Where was the high court he had never reached? By Franz Kafka Judge Reached High Court

All judges have cases that touch our passions deeply, but we all struggle constantly with remaining impartial. By Sonia Sotomayor Deeply Impartial Judges Cases Touch

Judiciary is where my passion is. By Patrick Leahy Judiciary Passion

If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the judges, or the protected members of the middle class. One goes to the unprotected - those, precisely, who need the law's protection most! - and listens to their testimony. By James A. Baldwin Country Policemen Lawyers Judges Class