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Townsend Hoopes, a lawyer who filed an amicus curiae brief for the Association of American Publishers in behalf of Williams and Wilkins, said yesterday: "What has been happening is that hundreds of copies of articles are made and distributed. It amounts to a reprinting and republishing operation in violation of copyright laws...
...City of Boston has filed an amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief in the case supporting busing across district lines, The Boston Globe reported yesterday...
...terms of shareholder responsibility (e.g., Gulf, Middle South Utilities), a marginally acceptable affirmative action plan, a paucity of tenured black faculty, and an unenthusiastic attitude towards the W.E.B. DuBois Research Institute to cite a few examples. In light of these issues, one becomes suspicious of Harvard being in the amicus curiae vanguard on behalf of solely minority students...
Thus, the broader issue in DeFunis vs. Odegaard revolves not around minorities, but around meritocracy. Harvard has filed an amicus curiae brief because, ultimately, the admission of all students in terms of non-academic criteria is jeopardized. Surely, if 800 board scores and 4.0 averages were requirements for admission, not all of the present Harvard College students of any race would be here today...
...anyone to argue the case for present admissions practices more eloquently than Archibald Cox '34. The 52-page brief which Cox and some of his graduate students at the Law School put together in a little over two weeks time was probably one of the best of the 25 amicus curiae (friend-of-the-court) opinions, and will no doubt have a great influence upon the ultimate decision which the Burger court makes. Lawyers for Charles Odegaard, president of the University of Washington, acknowledged this week just how influential they think Cox is when they asked him to consider presenting...