Word: amicus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...right, facing the justices, sat counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, petitioners. On the left sat counsel for the Little Rock school board, respondents. Near by, in traditional cutaway and striped trousers sat Solicitor General J. Lee Rankin, representing the U.S. as amicus curiae (friend of the court). The issue before the court, like all great issues, was basically simple: whether the rule of law or of violence should prevail at Little Rock's Central High School. The legal situation was more complicated. Last June Federal Judge Harry J. Lemley of Arkansas' Eastern...
...Amicus Curiae. In Miami, after being fired by the city commission, City Attorney Olavi M. Hendrickson was given instructions by the mayor to appeal a Circuit Court ruling that restored him to his job, declined to do so, on the grounds that "the decision was eminently correct, and an appeal would be a waste of time and money...
...Amicus Humani Generis. When a little Taurum turns the White House putting green into a creeping shoulder-high jungle, Congressman Fairweather has some doubts about John Henry's sanity, but none about his product. At the city's main psychiatric clinic, the "chief head-candler" assures the congressman that John Henry's Rorschach test is "interesting, but not alarming." The congressman then points out to the young scientist that there are millions to be made out of his pay dirt. But John Henry is interested in no quid pro quo, prefers to be "an amicus humani generis...
...Several hundred thousand federal employees, representing every segment of our population, work and live in the District of Columbia area. It is the established policy of the United States that its employees shall be hired, and shall work together, without regard to any differences of race or color." As amicus curiae (friend of the court), Brownell sided with the District corporation council in appealing for reversal of a lower court decision invalidating an old District of Columbia anti-segregation ordinance...