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...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...
...turning up everywhere, from school-board meetings to the Supreme Court, which last week heard a major case on the separation of church and state. Rosenberger v. University of Virginia, which involves the denial of student-activity funds to Wide Awake, a Christian magazine, attracted a slew of amicus briefs on both sides. One of those supporting Ronald Rosenberger and his fellow Christian students was filed by a legal foundation, housed at Regent Law School, called the American Center for Law and Justice, or ACLJ. It is one of a rapidly growing network of Christian legal organizations around the country...
...their liberties," argues Mathew Staver, president of the six-year-old Liberty Counsel in Orlando, Florida. "In the '80s we discovered we must enter the mainstream to assert those liberties." Along with a number of school-prayer cases, the Liberty Counsel has advocated free speech in an amicus Supreme Court brief on behalf of the Ku Klux Klan, which wants to erect a cross on the Ohio statehouse grounds. Other legal groups focus on defending antiabortion activists, while the Rutherford Institute, established in 1982, concentrates on what founder John Whitehead calls "legitimate civil liberties cases," such as school prayer...
...required the state of Rhode Island to pay $100,000 in damages to a 320-lb. woman for not hiring her, and then ordered that she be hired as an attendant at a mental retardation facility. "Obesity may, in appropriate circumstances, constitute a disability," the EEOC said in its amicus brief. "It is not necessary that a condition be involuntary or immutable to be covered...
Various child-development experts weighed in with their views in amicus briefs to the court. Moving the baby now, wrote Professor Solnit, who is also a senior research scientist at the Yale Child Study Center, could pose a grave risk to her development. In his clinical work, Solnit has found that for a child so young, being removed from a home and placed with people who, however loving, are strangers to her can lead to "a loss of intellectual capacity." The hour-to-hour, day-to-day experiences of the first two to three years of life, he argues...