How to Use amicus in a Sentence

amicus

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  • More than a dozen amicus, or friend of the court, briefs were filed.
    — Cary Spivak, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 June 2018
  • Lisa, this is a case that the Onion has, has put in a, uh, an amicus brief to, to talk about the value of satire.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Both groups had filed amicus briefs in support of the defendant in the case.
    — Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 29 June 2023
  • The report goes on for a few pages about an erroneous amicus brief that the ERLC filed in a court case.
    — Dominic Pino, National Review, 3 June 2021
  • This effort includes 19 of the 26 states that support the NPPC with their amicus brief.
    — Matthew Scully, National Review, 11 July 2022
  • The council filed an amicus brief in support of the troll fishery.
    — Julia O’Malley, New York Times, 19 July 2023
  • Ten states filed an amicus brief asking the court to consider the case.
    — Madeleine Carlisle, Time, 28 May 2021
  • The city, too, had filed an amicus brief supporting the challenge in court.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2022
  • His group filed an amicus brief to the Supreme Court in support of Trump’s position.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Jackson wrote an amicus brief against the free-speech rights of McCullen, the lead plaintiff in a buffer-zone case the Supreme Court heard in 2014.
    — Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 28 Mar. 2022
  • Matters of debate Dozens of amicus briefs filed by a slew of groups urged the justices to handle this case with care.
    — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 21 Jan. 2020
  • His office had filed an amicus brief in support of the plaintiff.
    — Jonathan M. Pitts, Baltimore Sun, 15 Aug. 2023
  • An amicus brief involves a person with a strong interest in a case but is not a party to the case.
    — Chloe Melas, CNN, 14 July 2021
  • Does a military amicus brief help with a Supreme Court case?
    — Sarah Day Owen Wiskirchen, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2022
  • In fact, more than 60 amicus briefs have been filed in the case, with voting rights groups, Senators and even states weighing in.
    — Madeleine Carlisle, Time, 25 Apr. 2021
  • Last week, the Department of Justice filed an amicus brief on a behalf of the players.
    — Sean Gregory, Time, 17 Mar. 2021
  • The school board voted to sign onto the amicus brief earlier this month.
    — Tatiana Sanchez, The Mercury News, 23 Mar. 2017
  • Many of the largest Internet firms have joined the WhatsApp suit in an amicus brief on behalf of the company.
    — Washington Post, 18 July 2021
  • The Supreme Court already has a rule—37.6—that governs amicus filings.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2021
  • Third, something needs to be done to rein in the proliferation of amicus briefs.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 24 Jan. 2022
  • That's why a group of 22 Democratic governors filed an amicus brief in this case.
    — Selena Simmons-Duffin, NPR, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Matorin’s argument was echoed in amicus briefs filed by other landlords and their trade groups around the state.
    — Tim Logan, BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2020
  • Before joining Trump at the White House, Marshall signed his name to an amicus brief in what proved to be a frivolous lawsuit.
    — al, 20 Dec. 2020
  • More than 90 percent of Supreme Court cases attract at least one amicus.
    — Zachary Mider, Bloomberg.com, 12 Sep. 2017
  • The Second Circuit invited the submission of amicus briefs in the case.
    — Julie Moreau, NBC News, 4 Oct. 2017
  • Grossman also co-authored an amicus brief on behalf of 19 food and drug scholars in support of the FDA's position in the Texas case.
    — Christine Fernando, USA TODAY, 14 Apr. 2023
  • This claim garnered the support of more than sixty per cent of House Republicans, who signed an amicus brief.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2020
  • And there’s a whole amicus brief by the other side that is ... just an attempt to take down the Turnaway Study, but their criticisms are almost absurd.
    — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 3 May 2022
  • Amnesty International filed an amicus brief in support of So and Kim’s case last year.
    — Samantha Riedel, Them, 18 July 2024
  • Despite the Japanese government submitting an amicus brief in support of the case, the Supreme Court dismissed it in 2017.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 21 Sep. 2024

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