Alternative Dispute Resolutions (ADR) are ways of settling disputes without going through the entirety of the litigation process. In many cases such as divorce, civil disputes, or labor-management cases, judges will urge parties to consider alternative dispute resoluti...

         Most citizens naively take the United States Constitution at face value.  As such, most citizens believe that in order to amend the Constitution, the process outlined in Article Five must be followed.  That process requires that both houses of Congress approve...

I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five

If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers.

CHARLES DICKENS, The Old Curiosity Shop

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"In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute."
-Thurgood Marshall

pari delicto-

Equal fault

"It doesn't help to fight crime to put people in prison who are innocent."

-Stephen Breyer

Officious Intermeddler-

A volunteer who assists and/or benefits another without contractual responsibility or legal duty to do so, but nevertheless wants compensation for his/her actions. The courts generally find that the intermeddler must rely on the equally voluntar...

"'Worry' is a word that I don't allow myself to use."

-
Dwight D. Eisenhower

nisi prius-

 (nee-see pree-us) . Latin for "unless first," in some jurisdictions it means the original trial court which heard a case as distinguished from a court of appeals, as in court nisi prius. "Court of original jurisdiction" is often substituted for the term nis...