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...internal debate within the A.C.L.U. on the Florida case was, in the words of an insider, "fairly acrimonious." Many women members believe that by filing an amicus curiae brief in support of the shipyard, the organization displayed insensitivity to the intimidating effect that pornography has on women in predominantly male environments. "The workplace is different from the street," contends Mary Ellen Gale, a Whittier College law professor and member of the A.C.L.U.'s national board. "If someone shouts an obscenity on the street, you're not captive and you're not being denied equal opportunity. But it's different when...
Adding to his burden was an unexpected intervention by the Department of Justice. While Operation Rescue lawyers asked the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to vacate Kelly's antiharassment injunction, the U.S. Attorney for Kansas, Lee Thompson, filed an amicus curiae brief contending that federal courts had no jurisdiction over the case. Kelly, in an almost unprecedented TV interview on ABC's Nightline about the proceedings, angrily charged the Justice Department with giving its "imprimatur" to "a license for mayhem...
...marks -- in works of nonfiction. But the possibility threatened by Masson's appeal to the Supreme Court -- a draconian definition from the bench of how journalists should write their stories -- seemed even worse. A number of news organizations, including the American Society of Newspaper Editors and Time Warner, filed amicus briefs in support of the New Yorker...
...weight of the decision fell most heavily on Big Business and the insurance industry, which pays most punitive judgments. In all, 80 industry and professional organizations had filed 24 amicus briefs on behalf of Pacific Mutual, claiming that punitive awards have soared because of unbridled jury discretion. "It's become a form of legal lottery," says Washington attorney Theodore Olson. "Plaintiffs ask for huge awards, hoping they'll hit the jackpot...
Tribe was one of 11 nationally known law professors, including conservatives as well as liberals, who wrote and signed an amicus curiae brief in support of the Democrats' petition. Another co-signer, William Van Alstyne of Duke Law School, challenges the argument that there have been at least 130 acts of war that lacked congressional approval. "The number is widely inflated," he says. "A lot of them don't count, since they were for limited circumstances and for short periods of time." In his view, the fact that the congressional war-power clause has sometimes been ignored does not render...