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...years. As assistant attorney general for civil rights under Edward A. Brooke, Campbell was responsible for Massachusetts' dramatic defense of the 1965 Voting Rights Act before the Supreme Court. He enlisted Archibald Cox, Samuel Williston Professor of Law and former U.S. Solicitor General, to join him in presenting an amicus curiae brief containing arguments the Court later used in declaring its support...
Supreme Swinger. Indeed, the American Civil Liberties Union, as amicus curiae in all of the cases before the Supreme Court, advocates exactly that test. The A.C.L.U. argues that police custody is inherently so coercive that the suspect's privilege against self-incrimination can be protected only by a lawyer, not by mere warnings from the police, who are his adversaries. In this view, the lawyer's function would not be so much to shut up a guilty suspect as to advise him on his best chances-to say nothing of what the presence of lawyers would...
...ruling had a special meaning for Attorney Hutt, who appeared as amicus curiae in support of North Carolina's Driver. Though he had started the whole thing, Hutt was disappointed when the conviction of his own client was upheld last month by the District of Columbia Circuit Court. Now he is almost positive that the North Carolina decision will be followed by the D.C. Circuit Court which has agreed to reconsider his appeal. If that happens, Hutt predicts, the eight other U.S. circuit courts will follow suit...
...result, arguments over church-state issues raised by sectarian pressures of individual churches are far fewer than they were a decade ago. Last February, for example, the Catholic Council on Civil Liberties submitted an amicus curiae brief to the Supreme Court, attacking the Connecticut law against birth control that so long offended Protestants. The National Council of Churches, traditionally opposed to direct federal aid for parochial schools, accepted with only minor qualms this year's education act that provides for certain assistance to children who attend such schools. The breakdown of hostility has taken place on both sides...
Even if the court rejects the C.C.C.L. brief, it faces three other aspiring pro-contraceptive amid-the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, a group of 141 leading U.S. doctors, and the ever-eager American Civil Liberties Union. Anticontraceptive Connecticut, on the other hand, has not found an amicus willing to speak up in court...