George: What's the matter? You got so many friends, you don't need one more?
Kurt Potter: Wha... how did you do this?
Erin Brockovich: Well, um, seeing as how I have no brains or legal expertise, and Ed here was losing all faith in the system, am I right?
Ed Masry: Oh, yeah, completely. No faith, no faith.
Erin Brockovich: I just went out there and performed sexual favors. Six hundred and thirty-four blow jobs in five days... I'm really quite tired.
Matthew Brockovich: This girl's about my age. Is she one of the people you're helping?
Erin Brockovich: Yeah, she's really sick so I'm going to get her some medicine to feel better.
Matthew Brockovich: Why doesn't her own mom get her medicine?
Erin Brockovich: Because her mom's really sick too.
Matthew Brockovich: Oh.
Donna Jensen: 'Cause of the chromium.
Erin Brockovich: The what?
Donna Jensen: The chromium. Well, that's what kicked this whole thing off.
Ed Masry: What makes you think you can just walk in there and find what we need?
Erin Brockovich: They're called boobs, Ed.
Erin Brockovich: Bite my ass, Krispy Kreme.
Erin Brockovich: I don't need pity, I need a paycheck. And I've looked. When you've spent the past six years raising babies its real hard to find somebody who pays worth a damn, are ya getting every word of this down honey or am I talking too fast?
Ed Masry: I'd love to help, Erin, but I'm sorry, I have a full staff right now, so.
Erin Brockovich: Bullshit. If you had a full staff, this office would return a client's damn phone calls.
Erin Brockovich: For the first time in my life, I got people respecting me. Please, don't ask me to give it up.
Erin Brockovich: Are you going to be something else that I have to survive? Because... to tell you the truth... I'm not up to it.
Ed Masry: In a law firm you may want to re-think your wardrobe a little.
Erin Brockovich: Well as long as I have one ass instead of two I'll wear what I like if that's all right with you. You might want to re-think those ties.
Erin Brockovich: Not personal! That is my work, my sweat, and MY time away from MY kids! if that is not personal, I don't know what is.
Answer: They would have had to prove he ran the red light, which would require video or witnesses. It seems like Erin had no witnesses backing up her version of the story, so they wouldn't have had anyone to say he went through the red light either.