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in the sense of ejectment cases or suits on contract.

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All other cases are cases at law. That is a very

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inaccurate, very inadequate explanation of the difference

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but it gives you some vague idea.

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Are you ready for the question?

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Delegate Cicone.

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DELEGATE CICONE: Mr. Chairman, I would like

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to speak in opposition to this, if I may, and I might

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explain, I am not an attorney, but as I have said

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before, I have worked in law offices for a long time and

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I have heard it stated here that the great concern here

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is for the litigants, which may be very well, but also I

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think the danger of this, and I have seen it used by

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lawyers to remove a case until they get the judge they

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want. I know the argument now is that we have assignment

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clerks, but believe me., it can be done, and I have seen

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it used for just that purpose, because I know in preparing

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cases, and in helping to prepare them and have them ready

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to go to trial, with witnesses coming in from out of

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state, and then for no particular reason at all, it is

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an absolutely known fact, that these cases have been