Henry A. Grunwald Quotes

The basic idea of defamation law is simple. It is an attempt to balance the private right to protect one's reputation with the public right to freedom of speech …. defamation law is often used by the rich and powerful to deter criticisms. It is seldom helpful to ordinary people whose reputations are attacked unfairly.

If someone feels they're being maliciously treated, then they should sue for libel. And if someone is malicious, if they are reckless, they will have no defence in law at all.

In India, nobody sues anybody.

A rude people, though in some degree alive to the benefits of civilized society, may be unable to practice the forbearance which it demands: their passions may be too violent, or their personal pride too exacting, to forego private conflict, and leave to the laws the avenging of their real or supposed wrongs.

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.

Everybody says not to respond to people on social media, but I'm not about to let my reputation be known as a slow player. I just don't appreciate that.

Libel law was developed to protect the reputations of individuals, not corporations.

Amtrak should not preclude their customers from exercising their full rights through a forced arbitration policy.

Theatre owners cannot threaten actors with defamation cases and take them to court or seek compensation for losses incurred.

Every libel … is made either against a private man, or against a public person. If it be against a private man, it deserves a severe punishment..

The highest hallmark of a civilized society is not the rapidity by which it exacts vengeance, but its ability to hold victim and victimizer in its compassionate heart.

When I wanted to be an attorney, I think I wanted to be a litigator; I wanted to be in a courtroom.

The mark of our society as civilized will come when we embrace confidence in the power of redemption.

I don't get to sue just because I don't like something.

Providing investors with recourse against governments is valuable.

Sometimes people will sue me to make an example of me but I don't sit home worrying about it; I'm too busy working.

A lawsuit can be a weapon.

Comey is a particularly infuriating character, and I think what he has always been about, from when he was the deputy attorney general under President Bush, is about protecting his own reputation.

Requiring forced arbitration agreements limits consumer rights and protections.

The defense to slander is the truth, and sometimes the truth hurts.

I think for any society to develop and become a civilized society, they need an independent judiciary.

Mediation is one of the most effective tools of non-violence. It can turn parties away from conflict, towards compromise.

Truth and trust are the means by which civilization holds off barbarism.

To inflict cruelties on defenceless creatures, or condone such acts, is to abuse one of the cardinal tenets of a civilized society - reverence for life.