Word: amicus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...middle, the Supreme Court last week offered a Solomonic compromise...rigid quotas...were forbidden, but...race might legitimately be an element in judging [university applicants]...Writing six different opinions totaling 154 pages, the Justices were as torn [as] the rest of the nation. The case had attracted 61 amicus curiae briefs, [the most ever submitted]...Three times the opinions were sent to the printer only to be pulled back for additions, deletions and revisions. The version finally made public was the fourth. [Justice] Blackmun, in particular, had trouble making up his mind." --July...
...appointment, he represented the very company, International Paper, that helped cause the removal of the first special counsel because it had sold land to the Whitewater Development Corp.; he has ties to groups bent on defeating Clinton; and on the eve of his appointment, he was considering filing an amicus brief in support of Paula Jones' right to sue the President...
...Clinton Administration will not join the court fight against Colorado's ban onlaws that would protect homosexuals from discrimination. Attorney General Janet Reno said she would not file an amicus brief supporting the elimination of the ban, as many civil and gay rights groups had urged, because "there was no federal program or statute involved." Disappointed activists accused the Justice Department of running away from an important civil rights issue for political reasons. While Reno denied politics had anything to do with her decision, TIME legal correspondent Adam Cohen says that politics had to be a consideration. "We wouldn...
...first year on the Harvard faculty, Professor Higginbotham taught a seminar on the role of race in the American legal process. As the centerpiece of the curriculum, we discussed the merits and implications of each of these pending cases. As an amicus curiae on behalf of the Congressional Black Caucus, Judge Higginbotham provided invaluable insight about not only the politics behind racial redistricting but also about the important policy implications that the Supreme Court would inevitably address...
...paid member of the defense, he has paraded himself through the media as a commentator. It occurs to me that even Harvard may be well-served by a gadfly, if that is what it takes to inform it that its acquiescence in this matter makes it an amicus curiae of the legal team which is helping to dismantle the fundamental dignity of our institutions of law and order...