16 Quotes by Judge M. Lane

Well, judges take offense to that if they're called an activist judge. But the fact of the matter is if the shoe fits, you've got to put it on. There are judges that do that.

We've got to focus on people as people. We've got to get beyond this ethnic thing. We're all Americans, and we've got to recognize that.

If you litigate, you're entitled to litigate and you're entitled to have the issues explored completely.

If you've got a case that's due out or you have a trial starting Monday morning, and you haven't read the file, you haven't done the homework and done the research, you ought to be in there Saturday and if necessary Sunday. That goes with the territory.

In the beginning, I don't think any juvenile of kinder years, of young age like that, should be in an adult facility. I think that is in and of itself criminal.

If you run - if you give the gavel to a lawyer, they'll take it.

You've got to be big enough to say I was wrong, have your administrative assistant get the lawyers, get the litigants back in, and be big enough to go on the record and correct it.