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It's been said. . .

“It shouldn’t be this hard for people to get what they pay for and be charged correctly for what they’re getting.”
Philadelphia class-action lawyer Thomas More Marrone, on an appeals court affirming a $600,000 judgment for law firms that had been overcharged for copying medical records

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“It was premature. The argument was made we should beat others to the punch …It was way too early in his career.”
Lawyer and U of I Trustee David Dorris, on the withdrawal of a proposal to grant an honorary degree to U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts

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“One of the things I have found out is that  now nobody stands up when I enter a room.”
Paul Cassell, after his resignation as a federal judge in Utah because he felt certain areas of federal law are out of balance; he was the first federal judge to find federal mandatory sentencing guidelines unconstitutional, an opinion supported by the Supreme Court in the landmark case United States v. Booker