Word: amicus
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...filed an amicus brief when the case was before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. In May that court upheld Michigan’s policy and dismissed the complaints of white students who brought suit after they were denied admission...
...tribunal has named "amicus" attorneys--friends of the court--for Milosevic, to challenge evidence and offer exculpatory facts, even if he won't. If he tries to put NATO on trial as an unlawful aggressor by calling world leaders as witnesses, they would probably refuse to appear. Only the judges could legally summon them...
...tribunal has named "amicus" attorneys - friends of the court - for Milosevic, to challenge evidence and offer exculpatory facts, even if he won't. If he tries to put NATO on trial as an unlawful aggressor by calling world leaders as witnesses, they would likely refuse to appear. Only the judges could legally summon them...
...criticisms have focused on the searing imagery featured in club meetings: kids learn that nonbelievers will burn in everlasting fire and that Satan is real. "This is not just cookies, puppets and Bible stories," says Rob Boston, of Americans United for Separation of Church and State--which filed an amicus-curiae brief against the club. "This is an evangelical hard sell...
...Democrats are sounding kinda negative about George W. Bush. They're using Jelly's language. Interested parties are filing nasty little amicus briefs all over the media, their viciousness flying just below the ethical radar - not traceable, in any case, to the Democratic candidate himself, who is off working on merit badges in health care and sizzling monogamy. The word being delivered by Gore's helpers - maliciously, humorously - is that the governor of Texas, the Republican nominee for president of the United States, is "a f------ moron...