Sentences with phrase «friend of the court brief»

Briefly put, the Court of Appeals pointed out that the appeal against the original complaint was moot because there was an amended complaint, sent the whole thing back to the District Court, and told the District Court to allow a marginally allowed friend of the court brief from the ACLU to be considered.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, Public Knowledge, Engine Advocacy and the Consumer Electronics Association in a separate Friend of the Court brief said TV networks» position — that Aereo is retransmitting local TV stations — conflicts with a history of court cases and congressional views.

In a document called a «friend of the court brief,» the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San Francisco - based digital rights advocacy group, defended Yelp.

In a document called a «friend of the court brief» which has been submitted to the Supreme Court, the leagues argue that what Aereo does is a violation of their «exclusive retransmission licensing rights.»

«Therefore, I will be conducting a top to bottom review of this law now, so that if I am fortunate enough to be elected attorney general, I will be in a position to file a «friend of the court brief» that opposes this law's constitutionality,» Coffey wrote.

New York GOP Rep. Richard Hanna is one of several prominent Republicans signing a friend of the court brief to the Supreme Court backing marriage rights for same - sex couples.

He has even joined three other NYS sheriffs in filing a friend of the court brief in a federal lawsuit seeking to overturn SAFE.

As attorney general, Pruitt in 2013 filed a friend of the court brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in which he argued the EPA ignored the risks that gasoline with more than 10 percent ethanol can pose to cars» fuel systems as well as the RFS requirement's possible effect on food prices.

Jeffrey Kuhn, an attorney with the firm Lozano Smith, who wrote a friend of the court brief supporting Alameda Unified on behalf of the California School Boards Association, shared Evans» concern.

But your average, paperless pet, in the view of all those «pet - loving» organizations, is worth nothing — at least according to the friend of the court brief.

When the case went before the state's highest court yesterday among the documentation the judges had to consider was a friend of the court brief, filed by the American Kennel Club, the Cat Fanciers» Association and the American Veterinary Medical Association — all agreeing pets are mere «property» and that courts should award no more than «market value» in cases involving their deaths.

Tony has also assisted ALDF with pet store cases and a friend of the court brief regarding the Chicago foie gras ban.

The court noted that the American Kennel Club, in a friend of the court brief joined by the Cat Fanciers» Association and other pet - welfare groups, warned against the unintended consequences of allowing «sentiment - based damages» for injured or destroyed dogs.

He has worked with local communities to avoid pit bull bans and advocated in a friend of the court brief for the rights of Michael Vick's dogs used for fighting to restitution from their abuser.

Virginia Rutledge, counsel for The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (which filed a friend of the court brief in the case), told A.i.A., «The outcome can't be predicted based on questions raised during oral argument, but the Court has before it very compelling arguments for Prince's transformative use of Cariou's imagery and the significance of the First Amendment speech interests at stake, and was openly dismissive of allegations of market harm.»

Some people, well - known for disputing the mainstream consensus on climate science, are asking the judge to admit their views in a friend of the court brief, asserting that «there is no agreement among climatologists as to the relative contributions of Man and Nature to the global warming» of the past several decades.

The Oregon Innocence Project, of which I am legal director, has drawn criticism from Clackamas County District Attorney John Foote for its friend of the court brief highlighting circumstances that raise questions about the Frank Gable case («Oregon Innocence Project misses mark in notorious murder»).

A handful of tech companies have signed onto a friend of the court brief in the case of the Colorado baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a same sex couple.

Today, Mozilla joined 115 companies in filing a friend of the court brief with the United States Supreme Court to demonstrate our continued opposition to the U.S. travel ban in... Read more

The ruling is supported by the National Association of REALTORS (R), which along with other organizations submitted a friend of the court brief in the case.

NAR filed a «friend of the court brief» opposing CFPB's interpretation, and the Court's initial opinion upheld NAR's position.

NAR, along with several other nonprofit professional associations, filed an amicus brief (friend of the court brief) with the U.S. Supreme Court in California Dental Association v. Federal Trade Commission.