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...Intellectual Freedoms Committee of the Massachusetts Library Association said yesterday that it would probably join the Civil Liberties Union in filing an amicus curiae brief at the appellate level. The Association is concerned because "distribution" of a book has been interpreted in censorship cases to include libraries...
Bobby did not pick himself an easy case as a starter. He appeared as amicus curiae in Saunders v. Gray, an immensely complicated case in which Georgia's county unit voting system is challenged. That system which was overturned last year by a lower court, gives nearly eight times as much weight to rural votes as it does to urban votes. It hands control of the legislature to back-country princelings, often assures the election of wool-hat Governors, and, incidentally, minimizes the Negro vote, which is concentrated in the cities...
...Abiit ad amicum suum Ursum Pum visendum, quia ille ei ex animo amicus...
...right, facing the justices, sat counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, petitioners. On the left sat counsel for the Little Rock school board, respondents. Near by, in traditional cutaway and striped trousers sat Solicitor General J. Lee Rankin, representing the U.S. as amicus curiae (friend of the court). The issue before the court, like all great issues, was basically simple: whether the rule of law or of violence should prevail at Little Rock's Central High School. The legal situation was more complicated. Last June Federal Judge Harry J. Lemley of Arkansas' Eastern...
...Amicus Curiae. In Miami, after being fired by the city commission, City Attorney Olavi M. Hendrickson was given instructions by the mayor to appeal a Circuit Court ruling that restored him to his job, declined to do so, on the grounds that "the decision was eminently correct, and an appeal would be a waste of time and money...