Appellate Quotes

The language of the court decisions on the topic is quite frightening, ... One appellate court said that the state has a lessened interest in human life when that life is terminal. Think about that for just a second! If that doesn`t turn things on its head!

In Burger`s heyday they were deciding 150 cases a year -- so many that they were talking about creating an intermediate appellate court to handle some of the load. Rehnquist comes in, and with the platform of being chief justice, all that disappears, to the point where the Court is being criticized for taking too few cases.

I was not surprised the appellate court overturned one small part of the dismissal. Her case survived another day, that doesn`t give it more merit, in our view.

The president appoints the judges. Your lives and your children`s lives can change by all of these appellate court judges who will be appointed who will reinterpret laws, and things can change.

Because of the pool problem, we did carefully examine law firms and professors as well in looking for good women and minorities to appoint as district judges and appellate judges.

has criticized the exclusionary rule . . . and (as an appellate judge) has favored police powers over privacy concerns.

We`re seeking appellate relief to prevent a lawyer who was employed for the briefest of times from capitalizing on that employment and violating his oath as a lawyer.