Word: amicus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...controversy aside, Moon's theology has yet to achieve widespread acceptance in the United States, where he numbers only 45,000 followers. An amicus curiae or "friend of the court" brief submitted on Moon's behalf by churches representing over 40 million parishioners noted that...
...topic under discussion. For example, many of the cases we were studying were in the field of school desegregation and reverse discrimination. J. Harold Flannery, then Director of the Harvard Center for Law and Education, was a frequent guest, as was Archibald Cox, who had field an amicus curie brief in DeFunis v. Odegard, involving the question of whether a law school may constitutionally give preference to members of racial minorities. When the Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wode, the celebrated abortion case, was handed down, our guests included a professor with an appointment at both the Divinity...