Conor Lamb Quotes
Amtrak should not preclude their customers from exercising their full rights through a forced arbitration policy.
Lamb, Conor. "Lamb Introduces Bipartisan Legislation to Protect Amtrak Passengers." Representative Conor Lamb, U.S. House of Representatives, 13 Feb. 2020.
This is one of the first attempts to decentralize the system of law and justice. Edgar was very supportive and tolerant of local differences and customs, including in the law.
At that time most Americans could not afford the legal expenses to file a civil lawsuit unless it was a huge case and an attorney would take it on s contingency. But for normal cases, only the wealthy had access to the courts for most cases.
This quotation is a more sophisticated statement of the Magna Carta clause {583716}. Note that English law allowed redress against all other people including religions officials and government temporal officers. And everyone was entitled to justice and access to the courts including outlaws or people who have been excommunicated. In many countries these people do not have the protection of the law. This tradition allows prisoners in jail to sue the jailers for example. And imagine a person who had been excommunicated as a heretic and yet allowed to live turning around and suing clerics who were persecuting him in an Islamic nation other than Turkey.
Conor James Lamb is an American lawyer and politician who is the U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania's 17th congressional district since January 2019. The district serves most of the northwestern suburbs of Pittsburgh. A member of the Democratic Party, Lamb was first elected to Congress from the neighboring 18th district in March 2018, in a special election against Republican Rick Saccone that attracted national attention. After Pennsylvania's congressional map was redrawn by court order, Lamb filed to run for a full term in the 17th district in the 2018 general election, which he also won.