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...principles. And we agree. We are starkly disappointed that Harvard has to be passive aggressive when it comes to this case; the University should have been proactive from the beginning. However, given the current situation and the appeal to the Supreme Court, we encourage the University to file an amicus brief with the court. Fifty members of the Harvard Law School faculty filed such a brief in the appeals court, and its effectiveness substantiates similar action with the Supreme Court...
...Supreme Court and its rulings. Last week Meese's agency took aim at a favorite target of President Reagan and many of his conservative supporters: the landmark 1973 Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court case, which struck down most legal restrictions on abortion. The Justice Department filed a 30-page amicus curiae brief asking the court to reverse its 7-to-2 decision. "The basis for Roe vs. Wade, " states the brief, "is so far flawed and is such a source of instability in the law that this court should reconsider that decision and on reconsideration abandon...
...German government-backed study into bullying. Sweden and France have passed new laws to protect staff from bullies - the French introduced such legislation in 2002 - while Britain and Germany rely on existing protections. The Dignity at Work Partnership, a $3.4 million government-backed project launched late last October by Amicus, the U.K. employees' union, is also trying to tackle the problem. With the help of dozens of British firms, Amicus aims to draw up a voluntary charter establishing what companies expect from employees - and how they'll punish wrongdoers. Truffet-Lefebvre, now happy at another firm, would surely approve...
...bound to convince none of the Court’s nine justices....Claims that giving the state judiciary this sort of power violates some separation-of-powers norm binding on the states are entirely frivolous,” Tribe wrote in an e-mail. Tribe filed an amicus brief in January urging the SJC to support same-sex marriages...
...standards. The price of standing up for a principle, for refusing to bow under pressure and condone bigoted hiring practices, should not be millions of dollars in guaranteed federal funding. The 50 members of the HLS faculty—including HLS Dean Elena Kagan—who signed an amicus brief in support of the lawsuit challenging the Solomon Amendment deserve praise for recognizing the University’s need to affirm its commitment to bisexual, gay, and lesbian students. Their courage to speak out is admirable...