Sentences with phrase «amicus brief arguments»

Bloomberg BNA and The New York Law Journal summarized our amicus brief arguments, covered our award, and explained how our brief came together.

Not exact matches

District courts aren't limited to the grounds or arguments asserted by the parties when making their rulings either, so rejection of the amicus brief does not suddenly wall off any of its arguments from consideration by the judge.

Utah's ban on gay marriage harms the children of gays and lesbians, despite arguments the state has made to the contrary, according to an amicus brief filed Tuesday by a group of national and state gay rights organizations.

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Judge Cote ruled this week (PDF) that the brief they already submitted — which «contains five pages of substantive arguments that do not address the question of whether leave to file amici curiae responses is appropriate, but rather oppose approval of the proposed Final Judgment» — will suffice as B&N and the ABA's only comment on the matter, and «no additional filings from the ABA and Barnes & Noble shall be permitted.»

Separately, last week Barnes & Noble (s BKS) and the American Booksellers Association requested permission to file an amici curiae, or «friend of the court,» brief in the case, saying that «if the Court were not to permit ABA and Barnes & Noble to serve as amici in this matter, it is likely that DOJ's numerous arguments in that filing that are specifically directed against Barnes & Noble and ABA, complete with their factual inaccuracies, would go unrebutted by any party currently before the Court.»

Law professor Seth Barrett Tillman of Ireland's Maynooth University submitted an amicus brief arguing that the emoluments clause doesn't apply to the president of the United States, igniting an argument among legal historians, the New York Times reported in September.

Requesting an amicus brief from the Attorney General effectively allows the court to determine the length and strength of arguments the Federal Government might bring.

By way of background, 12 current or former constitutional law professors filed an amicus brief on behalf of Scooter Libby, raising constitutional arguments regarding the appointment of special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, who investigated Libby and secured his conviction.

An amicus brief is a written legal argument filed by someone not directly involved in a case on appeal to help educate the court about particular issues of that case.

The Fellows attend oral argument and the moot courts, draft the Supreme Court Report, and often prepare a multi-state amicus brief.

She even had some love for the arguments of Scott Dodson (Hastings), who filed an amicus brief putting forward his theory that a jurisdictional rule is any rule, regardless of source, that places a case in one court and out of another.

Together with a terrific group of lawyers from Proskauer Rose working pro bono, I helped put together an amicus brief that we just sent off to the Sixth Circuit which seeks to make a number of refined statutory arguments about guideline enhancements based on acquitted conduct.

Stacy Taeuber submitted an amicus brief to the Wisconsin Supreme Court in State v. Shata, and in April, she participated in oral argument before the court.

CFPB will file its reply brief in the PHH matter, responding to PHH's arguments and presumably those offered by numerous amici who have filed briefs opposing the CFPB's position.