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In Oliver Stone's 1991 film JFK, the character of district attorney Jim Garrison during the only trial brought in the murder of President John F. Kennedy declares "Let justice be done, though the heavens fall". [22] The first lyrics of the Frank Wildhorn musical The Count of Monte Cristo contain this phrase.
It is a maxim meaning that a just decision should be made at whatever cost in terms of practical consequences. An alternative phrase is Fiat justitia ruat caelum, meaning "Let justice be done, though the heavens may fall." [1] A famous use is by Immanuel Kant, in his 1795 Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch (German: Zum ewigen Frieden.
Stephen J. Fortunato served for 13 years as an associate justice of the Rhode Island Superior Court. “Let justice be done though the heavens fall.”
"Let there be justice, though the world perish." Often used as a motto, notably by Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor. Fiat justitia ruat caelum "Let justice be done though the heavens fall." Also sometimes a motto, a legal maxim that justice must be done regardless of the result otherwise. Generalia specialibus non derogant
High Court Justice. Liberal MP for City of Oxford 1880. When a piece of plaster fell from the ceiling in his courtroom, he aptly quoted 'fiat justitia, ruat coelum' ('let justice be done though the heavens fall') and he once famously remarked that 'truth will sometimes leak out even through an affidavit' [14] [13]: 5 John Coleridge: 1838
The floodgates principle, or the floodgates argument, is a legal principle which is sometimes applied by judges to restrict or limit the right to make claims for damages because of a concern that permitting a claimant to recover in such situations might open the metaphorical "floodgates" to large numbers of claims and lawsuits. [1]
The lowliest citizen could stand before his courtroom unafraid of the mightiest tycoon, for he was confident that in the court of Judge Voltaire Y. Rosales justice would be dispensed in accordance with the Roman Maxim, "Let justice be done though the heavens fall."
The dismantling of USAID by the Trump administration means there are no staff to process waivers submitted by food and other aid organizations hoping to resume operations under humanitarian ...