“When I used to teach civil procedure as a law professor, I would begin the year by telling my students that “civil procedure is the etiquette of ritualized battle.” The phrase, which did not originate with me, captured the point that peaceful, developed societies resolve disputes by law rather than by force.” YearsLawUsedForceTeachStudentsBattlePeacefulPhrasesResolveProfessorsDisputesEtiquetteProceduresCaptured Author:Anne-Marie Slaughter
“You find that along with the culture of death go all kinds of other law-breaking: Not following good sanitary procedure, giving abortions to women who are not actually pregnant, cheating on taxes, all these kinds of things.” GivingKindLawCultureTaxesFollowingAll KindsAbortionCheatingPregnantProceduresSanitaryLaw Breaking Author:Todd Akin
“At Planned Parenthood, we see the impact of abortion stigma firsthand, in the women who delay getting reproductive health care because they fear they’ll be labeled and judged. We see the effect of stigma on doctors, health center staffers, and others who help provide abortion services. And we see the impact in laws that regulate and restrict abortion in ways that would never happen with any other medical procedure.” WayHelpingHappensCareLawEffectsDoctorsImpactMedicalHealth CareAbortionParenthoodJudgedDelayProceduresIn-lawsStigmaPlanned ParenthoodReproductive HealthMedical Procedures Author:Cecile Richards
“Procedure is the bone structure of a democratic society. Our scheme of law affords great latitude for dissent and opposition. It compels wide tolerance not only for their expression but also for the organization of people and forces to bring about the acceptance of the dissenter's claim....We have alternatives to violence.” PeopleLawForceJusticeViolenceAcceptanceExpressionOrganizationClaimsStructureDemocraticBonesWideToleranceAlternativesOppositionSchemesProceduresDissentDemocratic SocietyLatitude Author:Abe Fortas
“The common law of chattels, that is to say, the law ultimately adopted by the King's courts for the regulation of disputes about the ownership and possession of goods, was, to be a substantial extent, a by-product of that new procedure which had been mainly introduced to perfect the feudal scheme of land law.” LawPerfectCommonLandProductsKingsCourtPossessionGoodsRegulationOwnershipSchemesAdoptedDisputesProceduresCommon Law Book:A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919 Source: A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919
“Thus, at long last, as a visible emblem of unity was daily growing in the new Palace of Justice then being erected in the Strand, half way between the historic site of Westminster the historic centre of the commercial capital of the world, there began to grow up, in the minds of reformers, the vision of a great and united Supreme Court of Justice, with uniform principles, uniform law, and uniform procedure.” WorldWayMindLongLastsLawGrowsJusticeUnitedHalfVisionPrinciplesGrowing UpGrowingCourtUnitySupremeVisibleUniformsSiteCentreSupreme CourtHistoricPalacesProceduresStrandsReformersEmblemsHalf WayWestminster Author:Edward Jenks