We’re researching youth sports bans for an amicus brief 🏅
Looking for primary-source data on cis athletes supporting inclusion — and on trans athletes’ experiences (K-12 especially).
If you have leads, or know who might, please reach out. Every step counts.
#TransRights #SportsEquity #AmicusBrief #EqualProtection
Forged in a Praxis Foundry with AI assistants.
Y Combinator files brief supporting Epic Games
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/08/21/y-combinator-epic-games-amicus-brief/
#HackerNews #YCombinator #EpicGames #AmicusBrief #TechNews #StartupSupport #LegalBattle
500 Law Firms Fight Back Against Trump Bully Tactics
Trump's war on law firms for daring to represent clients he doesn't personally like is getting pushback from other law firms.
https://www.freezenet.ca/500-law-firms-fight-back-against-trump-bully-tactics/
#LawAndTechnology #News #AmicusBrief #court #filing #LegalEagle #politics #Trump #US
Amazon’s TikTok Bid Sparks Booksellers’ Opposition; Publishers File Brief Against Meta: Self-Publishing News with Dan Holloway
We end the week with a round-up that begins with a story I seem to have missed when it first broke at the start of April. It’s an interesting and highly relevant twist in the TikTok ownership saga. You will recall that…
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/amazons-tiktok-bid/
#AmazonTikTokbid #amicusbrief #booksellersopposition #BookTok #FairUse
@indieauthors
Amazon’s TikTok Bid Sparks Booksellers’ Opposition; Publishers File Brief Against Meta: Self-Publishing News with Dan Holloway https://selfpublishingadvice.org/amazons-tiktok-bid/ #booksellersopposition #AmazonTikTokbid #amicusbrief #Metalawsuit #BookTok #FairUse #News
Canva Unveils AI Tools, Including Image Generation; Law Professors Challenge Meta’s Copyright Use: Self-Publishing News with Dan Holloway
This week’s AI news focuses on two issues of great interest to indie authors. I will start with Canva. In part because I haven’t talked about them for a while. And partly because this news picks up…
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/canva-unveils-ai-tools/
#amicusbrief #CanvaAItools #imagegeneration #indieauthors #Metacopyrightcase
@indieauthors
Canva Unveils AI Tools, Including Image Generation; Law Professors Challenge Meta’s Copyright Use: Self-Publishing News with Dan Holloway https://selfpublishingadvice.org/canva-unveils-ai-tools/ #self-publishingnews #Metacopyrightcase #imagegeneration #CanvaAItools #indieauthors #amicusbrief #News
These critical roles in support of a free and independent press which often relies on information from sensitive sources would be adversely impacted by the President's executive orders targeting law firms like Perkins Coie.
#amicusbrief #journalists #sensitivesources #pressfreedom #freepress #independentpress #lawyers
EFF Joins #AmicusBrief Supporting #PerkinsCoie Law Firm Against #Unconstitutional #ExecutiveOrder
EFF has joined the #ACLU and other legal advocacy organizations across the ideological spectrum in filing an amicus brief asking a federal judge to strike down President Donald Trump’s executive order targeting law firm Perkins Coie for its past work on #VotingRights lawsuits and its representation of the President’s prior political opponents.
#trump #maga #takeover
Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee has joined a nationwide legal challenge against the Trump Administration’s ongoing layoffs of probationary federal employees, which Menefee said “have a direct impact" on Houston-area residents.
#HarrisCounty #Houston #Local #National #News #Politics #Texas #AmicusBrief #FederalLayoffs #Fema #HarrisCountyAttorney #USOfficeOfPersonnelManagement
#SFC Files #AmicusBrief in Support of Users' Rights under AGPLv3§7 - Software Freedom Conservancy
SFC filed an amicus brief in the ongoing case of #Neo4j , Inc. v. #PureThink , LLC, which is now appealed to the US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. The appeal focuses on a downstream licensee's right under the Affero #GPL , v 3 (& similar rights under GPLv3 & LGPLv3) to remove “Further Restrictions” — even when such restrictions are put in place by original licensors.
24 #RedStates file an #amicusbrief to convince the #corrupt #US #SupremeCourt to #ban #trans #girls from #sports.
There is absolutely no #legitimate #scientific #evidence that #transgender #girls have any #significant #biological #advantage in #sports that is not balanced out by corresponding #disadvantages.
More than 160 #Democrats urge #SupremeCourt to #support #transgender #people’s #rights to #healthcare.
The #lawmakers #wrote an #amicusbrief in support of #families of #transgender #youth.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #US #Politics #Courts #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews
https://www.advocate.com/news/democrats-supreme-court-trans-care
Via #CitizensForEthics @ 6:29pm EDT on Sept 03, 2024
We just filed an #AmicusBrief saying Judge #Cannon should be reassigned from the #Trump #ClassifiedDocuments case.
Her apparent bias in favor of Trump and disregard of existing precedent make clear that she should not remain on the case.
#Alabama's #Republican #AttorneyGeneral files #amicusbrief in #Idaho’s #transgender #sportban #case #appeal.
Arguing #Idaho should be allowed to #bar #transgender #girls from playing on #girls’ #sports #teams based on “#biology.”
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Alabama #Politics #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #Hategroups #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews
In an #AmicusBrief submitted today to the #SupremeCourt, #CREW urged the Court to dismiss arguments in support of President #DonaldTrump that #AttorneyGeneral #MerrickGarland did not have the #legal authority to appoint #SpecialCounsel #JackSmith, given that #Trump did not challenge the validity of Special Counsel Smith’s appointment at the trial court level.
Jamelle Bouie of the NYT, wrote a great piece that considers the #AmicusBrief as well as 2 others filed in recent days & the “arguments leveled against the Colorado court’s decision &, by extension, its interpretation of Section 3 of the #14thAmendment to the U.S. Constitution.”
#SCOTUS #law #legal #History #2024election #Trump #Insurrection #Jan6
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/30/opinion/trump-insurrection-supreme-court.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
The authors of the #AmicusBrief are (I edited their credentials as they’re extensive)
Jill Lepore, Professor of History, Harvard University
David Blight, Professor of History & African American Studies at Yale University
Drew Gilpin Faust is President Emerita of Harvard University
John Fabian Witt, Professor of Law at Yale Law School
#SCOTUS #amicus #law #legal #History #2024election #Trump #Insurrection #Jan6 #14thAmendment
«Ex-conservative judge sends brief to #SupremeCourt begging not to fear #Trump's voters
...
Former U.S. appeals court judge and prominent #conservative #JMichaelLuttig's #AmicusBrief to the Supreme Court leveled a barrage of reasons why former President #DonaldTrump deserves to be stricken from seeking to become the country's 47th president.»
#Disqualification #Insurrection #14thAmendmentSection3
https://www.rawstory.com/michael-luttig-amicus-brief-14th-amendmendment-trump/
After Fleeing on Jan. 6, GOP Lawmakers Urge Supreme Court to Keep Trump on Ballot
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The ex-president also filed a brief and claimed that ballot disqualification efforts "promise to unleash chaos and bedlam if other state courts and state officials follow Colorado's lead."
Two-thirds of...
https://alaska-native-news.com/after-fleeing-on-jan-6-gop-lawmakers-urge-supreme-court-to-keep-trump-on-ballot/72158/
#trump #ballot #elections #congress #republicans #amicusbrief
