Consumer privacy group EPIC, among others, filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court case.
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The amicus brief filed in the federal appeal is available here .
Time Warner -- the parent company of CNN -- filed a supporting amicus brief in the high court dispute two years ago.
Just this past April, the Solicitor General submitted a vigorous anti-preemption amicus brief in the Supreme Court in Williamson v.
Yerushalmi and Muise filed the amicus brief on behalf of the Center for Security Policy, the Thomas More Law Center, and the Society of Americans for National Existence.
Lawyers for the police, supported by an amicus brief from 26 media organisations, argue that ride-alongs can help law enforcement, and so should be allowed by the Fourth Amendment.
Chris Soghoian, a researcher at the University of Indiana who earlier filed an amicus brief in support of the Twitter users, argues that sets a dangerous precedent for the web.
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When a group of software companies including Google, Facebook, Dell and others, filed an amicus brief in the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, their answer to the software question was not what one might expect.
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Scientific-Atlanta, which poses the question of whether, if there were securities fraud, the victims could go after not just a company that engaged in it but the company's vendors (I participated in an amicus brief that argued against holding vendors liable).
Likewise, look at the 131 Republicans who signed on to the amicus brief in support of the freedom to marry, including prominent members of the Bush administration and the Romney campaign, both of which had pledged to pursue a federal marriage amendment.
In 2009, we filed an amicus brief in a case against the Florida High School Athletics Association, which had reduced the maximum number of competitions that a school could schedule while exempting 36, 000 boys who played football and only 4, 300 girls and 201 boys who participated in competitive cheerleading.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), which again filed an amicus curiae brief in the case, called it a major victory for constitutional rights in the digital age.
Following the conviction and for the appeal, the prominent Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee filed an amicus curiae brief in support of acquittal and revolving around the question of whether anyone but the government has the right to issue money.
The administration is not a party in the appeal and not required to weigh in, but it decided to file an amicus or "friend of the court" brief.
The administration is not a party in the appeal and was not required to weigh in, but it decided to file an amicus or "friend of the court" brief.
March 2013: Obama personally reviews and OKs his administration's amicus or "friend of the court" brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court as it weighs the constitutionality of California's 2008 Proposition 8 referendum banning same-sex marriage.
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