Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Roman Catholic clergy, whose flock comprises 46% of the state's population, is theoretically of no concern to the court-but a little counterpressure never hurts. Last week it came from an unexpected source. The Catholic Council on Civil Liberties offered an amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief attacking the law and implying that it might trouble even Pope Paul...
Important Irrelevancies. But the court does welcome artful amid and occasionally solicits Government briefs that truly ventilate legal issues. If the main parties lack legal talent, the court's ultimate opinion may even sound remarkably like the amicus brief-a type of plagiarism that amicus groups prize and proudly report to their members. Most often, amid do the valuable chore of arguing novel or shaky points that litigants either dare not or do not think to embrace. Even when they are initially rejected, such arguments are thus recorded and may later bear fruit. In 1950, for example, the N.A.A.C.P...
...court does, however, accept some amicus briefs without the litigants' consent. Last week's liberal Catholic brief requested court approval, for example, because Connecticut withheld consent...
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...
...electrically charged, but normally no current flows between them. When a micrometeoroid penetrates the aluminum, it will punch a hole in the plastic and fill the hole with metal vapor that is a good conductor of electricity. Although the gas will dissipate quickly, there will be time for a brief pulse of electricity to cross the barrier and inform the satellite's electronic brain. Instruments in the satellite will record the time of each hit, identify the panel, and report roughly in what direction it was facing when...