When polled, they have questioned the Supreme Court's calamitous decision allowing a single civil litigant to disrupt the President's work on behalf of the nation.

"Congress," she wrote, "did not intend to restrict civil litigants from receiving firearms data pursuant to judicial subpoena."

It is unclear what standard is required to force Internet companies to turn over this search information to criminal investigators and perhaps civil litigants.

This bill would throw extra roadblocks in the path of civil litigants, forcing them to show that their suits serve an especially high public interest.

Numerous rivals, including Ajinomoto, have also reached settlements with the Government and civil litigants.

The Seventh Amendment guarantees most civil litigants a jury trial, but it says nothing about speed.

These laws restrict the ability of the government and civil litigants to obtain the identity of anonymous speakers.

Additionally, a federal district judge's husband and mother were murdered in the judge's home back in 2005 by a disgruntled civil litigant.

And the glut of new criminal cases would mean that civil litigants would suffer long delays before they ever got their day in court.

This year, court administrators say, the problem for civil litigants worsened because Congress provided the judiciary with $130 million less than judges said they needed.