State of the Judiciary and Access to Justice: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the Administration of Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, First Session ...

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Page 387 - Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress.
Page 708 - Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.
Page 102 - Such changes In and additions to those rules as the Conference may deem desirable to promote simplicity in procedure, fairness in administration, the just determination of litigation, and the elimination of unjustifiable expense and delay...
Page 291 - Constitution, independent tribunals of justice will consider themselves in a peculiar manner the guardians of those rights ; they will be an impenetrable bulwark against every assumption of power in the Legislative or Executive ; they will be naturally led to resist every encroachment upon rights expressly stipulated for in the Constitution by the declaration of rights.
Page 299 - Hearings have been scheduled before the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights of the House Judiciary Committee during the middle of May.
Page 1 - ... such additional duties as are not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the United States.
Page 394 - A court of the United States may not grant an injunction to stay proceedings in a State court except as expressly authorized by Act of Congress, or where necessary in aid of its jurisdiction, or to protect or effectuate its judgments.
Page 410 - ... fees in public interest litigation in the absence of express congressional authorization. Initially the public interest bar was subsidized by foundations and in part by cause organizations, such as the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Page 536 - If we are to keep our Democracy, there must be one commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice.
Page 177 - Every person is entitled to a certain remedy in the laws for all injuries or wrongs which he may receive in his person, property, or character ; he ought to obtain justice freely and without purchase: completely, and without denial; promptly, and without delay, conformably to the laws.

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