"The Court cannot draw a logical connection [... between X and Y] any more than an internal memo showing that a car dealership has not and will not require a blood sacrifice to buy a car would affect its negotiations with customers."
That's a hell of a thing to see in a legal brief.
US vs. Google Amicus Curiae Brief of Y Combinator in Support of Plaintiffs [pdf]
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.223205/gov.uscourts.dcd.223205.1300.1.pdf
#HackerNews #US #Google #YCombinator #AmicusCuriae #LegalBrief
Supreme Court Asked to Hear New Admissions Case on Race
Parents backed by Pacific Legal Foundation say admissions at Thomas Jefferson High School, VA not “race neutral”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/21/us/politics/supreme-court-thomas-jefferson-high-school-admissions.html
* divided 3-judge panel of U.S. Court of Appeals for 4th Circuit ruled 2023-05 that Thomas Jefferson HS did not discriminate
#PacificLegalFoundation #SCOTUS #neoliberalism #DarkMoney #AmicusCuriae #SLAPP #ExxonMobil #ScaifeFamily #DefundBillionaires #neofascism #Crowdsourcers #DonorsTrust #CharlesKoch
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Shelby County v. Holder
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelby_County_v._Holder
Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students_for_Fair_Admissions_v._Harvard
#85Fund #AffirmativeAction #AmericanRenaissance #AmiciCuriae #AmicusBriefs #AmicusCuriae #AntiDemocracy #AntiLGBTQ #BarreSeid #BetsyDeVos #BradleyFoundation #CharlesKoch #ChristianRight #ClaremontInstitute #ClimateChangeDenial #ConcordFund #CRCAdvisors #CriticalRaceTheory #CRT #CultureWars #DAF #DarkMoney #democracy #DeVosFamily #DeVosFoundation #DonorAdvisedFund
Over 1,500 Coinbase users rally behind lawyer John Deaton’s efforts to secure Amicus Curiae status for users. This is a crucial milestone in the crypto market’s history & could be a game-changer in the prolonged legal battle between SEC & Coinbase. #crypto #SEC #Coinbase #CryptoNews
#AmicusCuriae is a legal term that means “friend of the court.” It allows individuals or groups who are not direct parties to a lawsuit to file a brief in support of one side or the other.
https://www.tronweekly.com/1500-coinbase-users-unite-for-amicus-curiae-sec/
Giving Peace a Chance: Pushing Back on a Chilling Russian Censorship Law. “#Russia is using the law as a weapon against its own citizens to silence all criticism of its…aggression against #Ukraine… One Russian human rights organization…is pushing back…[with] a battery of complaints to the Russian Constitutional Court. …International human rights organizations & legal scholars…are preparing…#AmicusCuriae briefs…” | Catherine Morris & Lauren McCarthy, Slaw https://www.slaw.ca/2023/05/23/giving-peace-a-chance-pushing-back-on-a-chilling-russian-censorship-law/ @cmorris
You can now watch the recording of our webinar 'Amicus Curiae Interventions in Freedom of Expression Cases: A UNESCO Guide' online! It is available to watch in English, French, and Spanish.
@pixelpusher220 @shriramk @piccolbo @Jakeout surely theres a legal mechanism to group certain lawsuits together for the purposes of preventing the legal system from getting spammed? Ugh, legal Twitter is lagging WAY behind hacker Twitter. Hell even most trader Twitter has moved on (to blogs and forums, the weirdos). That or I need to start following hashtags that are catnip to legal nerds and just follow. Here, I’ll try this bit of jargon to see if any bite: #Amicuscuriae
