The earliest reference I may discover in a case is State of Illinois v. Harper & Row Publishers, Inc. (1972), however I discovered a 1944 newspaper reference as properly, so it was recognized even then. My colleague Paola Sapienza confirms that it’s certainly an Italian proverb, “Una causa è un albero da frutto piantato nel giardino di un avvocato.”
Paola additionally pointed to a different proverb, “Causa che pende, causa che rende.” That interprets to “A pending case makes cash [for the lawyer],” however considerably much less exactly (and altering the main focus from the lawyer to the consumer), as
A pending case is a spending case.
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