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With the potential consequences of a decision to uphold the ruling so damaging, it is gratifying that the University has decided to prepare an amicus curiae brief to defend the California university's practice of allotting 16 places in each class for minority students. If the U.S. Supreme Court decides to accept the case, Archibald Cox '34, Williston Professor of Law, will write the brief for Harvard. Cox wrote a similar brief two years ago defending the preferential admissions policy of the University of Washington Law School in the DeFunis case. But the Supreme Court did not rule on that...
...urged but not compelled to resort to busing only after alternatives have been tried); 2) provide federal funds to improve schools and encourage voluntary integration; and 3) set up a national council to mediate local disputes before they reach court judgment. Meanwhile, Solicitor General Robert Bork prepared an amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief that at least partly upheld busing opponents in Boston...
Damnable Act. In March the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education, a group of more than 100 black college presidents, filed an amicus curiae brief opposing a new demand for stronger desegregation efforts growing out of the 1973 decision. The college presidents oppose strict enforcement of desegregation laws as they apply to black colleges because they believe their colleges are needed for "remedial-type activity" that "cannot cease until black people have, in fact, equal educational opportunity" in elementary and secondary schools. In a more emotional summation of the views of black educators, former Morehouse President Benjamin Elijah...
...following a six-year stint as head of the New York affiliate. By then, the 55-year-old civil liberties group had already begun to move away from its strictly legal approach. In the past, the A.C.L.U. had generally entered a civil liberties case by filing a brief as amicus curiae (friend of the court). In 1968 the organization turned to more direct action; its attorneys served as defense lawyers in the Spock conspiracy trial. In the face of internal disagreement, A.C.L.U. activists convinced colleagues that the new course was the only realistic response to a prosecution that attacked free...
...dissenting judge said the ruling "will cripple the use and effectiveness of psychiatry." The American Psychiatric Association agrees. Last week it submitted an amicus curiae brief for a rehearing of a case that is alarming psychotherapists across the country. By a 5-to-2 vote, the California Supreme Court recently ruled that doctors or psychotherapists who have reason to believe a patient may harm someone must notify the potential victim, his friends, relatives or the authorities...