top of page
Quote_1.png
Floyd Abrams

"CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the highest court."

Standard 
 Customized
"CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the highest court."

More 

Quote_1.png
Eraldo Banovac

"I don't play full court anymore. I just play half-court."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Eraldo Banovac

"Justice Ginsburg is a very competent justice, and it is a joy to have her on the court, but particularly for me it is a pleasure to have a second woman on the court."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Eraldo Banovac

"Please keep an open mind and let me have my day in court."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Eraldo Banovac

"The nation will be shaped for decades by decisions that are made by President Bush and the Senate about the future of the Supreme Court."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Eraldo Banovac

"Soon after I returned to private practice, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger called me one day."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Eraldo Banovac

"It is always possible for the court to overreach its proper bounds and perhaps declare a lot of laws unconstitutional and frustrate the will of the majority in a way that it ought not be frustrated."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Eraldo Banovac

"Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Eraldo Banovac

"The court of last resort is no longer the Supreme Court. It's "Nightline.""

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Eraldo Banovac

"The court has said you are entitled to robust speech on public sidewalks, even insulting speech."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Eraldo Banovac

"I do here speak it before the court. I look that the Lord should deliver me by his providence."

Author Name

Personal Development

More 

Quote_1.png
Floyd Abrams
"It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball."

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Floyd Abrams
"It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know."

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Floyd Abrams
"The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them."

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Floyd Abrams
"It is not to benefit CBS, not to benefit its reporters. On this one, the entire basis of it is this is a way to get more information, more important information to the public. And that's why so many states recognize this."

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Floyd Abrams
"When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it this way, but a lot of the law - most of the law that relates to the First Amendment freedom of the press in America - is really within living memory."

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Floyd Abrams
"I think that the very fact that CBS fought and fought and fought in Texas, in New York."

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Floyd Abrams
"I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same."

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Floyd Abrams
"This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent."

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Floyd Abrams
"So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are."

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Floyd Abrams
"CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that there's a principle at stake here. The principle is that Dan Rather doesn't work for the police, and that people that speak to Dan Rather understand that he's a journalist and not a police agent."

Personal Development

bottom of page