Word: lawsuit
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...common contentious attitude of counsel in a lawsuit, and the common attitude of the judge as the umpire in a game, have done much to discredit the administration of justice in the United States. Counsel do not seem to the American public to be officers of a court seeking for truth and justice, but players of an unethical, intellectual game. The judge seems to regard himself--often perforce as a mere umpire between contending parties, and not as an agent of the commonwealth to settle controversies on their merits. The American public has lost some of its old faith...