Word: amicus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Intellectual Freedoms Committee of the Massachusetts Library Association said yesterday that it would probably join the Civil Liberties Union in filing an amicus curiae brief at the appellate level. The Association is concerned because "distribution" of a book has been interpreted in censorship cases to include libraries...
Bobby did not pick himself an easy case as a starter. He appeared as amicus curiae in Saunders v. Gray, an immensely complicated case in which Georgia's county unit voting system is challenged. That system which was overturned last year by a lower court, gives nearly eight times as much weight to rural votes as it does to urban votes. It hands control of the legislature to back-country princelings, often assures the election of wool-hat Governors, and, incidentally, minimizes the Negro vote, which is concentrated in the cities...
...Abiit ad amicum suum Ursum Pum visendum, quia ille ei ex animo amicus...