Jurisprudence Quotes

Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.

People thought it was a picture about slavery. But it wasn`t about slavery at all. It was about American jurisprudence. The point of the film ultimately was that the President in not the king. But I think people were like, `Jesus, not another movie about slavery!` We really do have a negative response to negative history. Which is a shame - on the box-office failure of Amistad (1997)

Under First Amendment jurisprudence, content-based laws are presumptively unconstitutional and can be justified only if the governmental regulation advances a compelling interest in the least restrictive means available.