Trent Franks Quotes

If somebody gets injured, they ought to have their day in court.

Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.

This week I was proud to join with my colleagues to help pass two important, common-sense pieces of legislation that will limit the frivolous lawsuits by trial attorneys and personal injury lawyers that clog our courts and hurt our small businesses.

I enjoy personal injury cases. I've tried quite a few of those. And, frankly, any kind of litigation that is trouble-shooting, whether it's equities, suits and injunctions, or whatever.

Today, lawyers are attacking more; they're attacking everything. A good example is the O.J. Simpson case.

And let no one apply to the king in any suit, unless he at home may not be worthy of law, or cannot obtain law.

A bedrock principle of our justice system is ensuring a fair day in court, something that is especially important for children who cannot advocate for themselves.

The framework for everything I've done has been human rights. That is about protecting the vulnerable and giving people access to courts where they wouldn't otherwise have access to courts.

In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress 'suspects.'

I know what it means to prosecute people.

Malpractice tort reform can be something as commonsensical as the establishment of medical courts - similar to bankruptcy or admiralty courts - with special judges to make determinations in cases brought by parties claiming injury.

In Malaysia, trials have always been fair.

When you file an amicus brief, and you represent a state, the court reads your brief. It is a powerful position to make the legal assault from.

Victims want to know that the true perpetrators of their crime are convicted - legal aid helps achieve this.

I don't know what it's like to get to face down my attacker in court, but I do know that they lie.

People have a false understanding of what our legal system is like - how it works/operates - from shows like 'Law and Order,' which suggest that lawyers appear on demand and do a tremendous amount of investigation and background research.

The law is only our best approximation of justice, and the law needs constant revision.

I am still not at all in favour of offering any defence. Even if the court had accepted that petition submitted by some of my co-accused regarding defence, etc., I would not have defended myself.

Before I was elected to Congress, I worked in a courtroom. For years, I defended doctors and hospitals, and for years, I sued them on behalf of people who were victims of medical malpractice.

The Sixth Amendment secures to persons charged with crime the right to be tried by an impartial jury reflecting a fair cross-section of the community.

Without legal aid, and the dedicated lawyers who deliver it, our system of justice would quite simply collapse.

What can you do if they have slapped you with a legal notice? You have to reply. For all you know, they have taken you to jail or something.

We are not living up to Thomas Jefferson's idea of what a trial by jury means.

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.

Standing up on the right to trial by jury is something that, really, a lot of people should agree with, you know, both on the Right and the Left.