amicus

American  

[uh-mahy-kuhs, uh-mee-] / əˈmaɪ kəs, əˈmi- /

adjective

Law.

1. of, relating to, or representing an amicus curiae, a friend of the court.

   The church stated its official position in an amicus brief.

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Etymology

Origin of amicus

By shortening

Example Sentences

Last week, tech industry groups such as TechNet, whose members include Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, Nvidia, Google and other major companies, said in an amicus brief that blacklisting an American company “engenders uncertainty throughout the broader industry.”

From Los Angeles Times

“Most of the things that people don’t like about prediction markets are already unlawful,” says Todd Phillips, an assistant professor of law at Georgia State and expert on financial regulation who has filed amicus briefs in the many prediction-market lawsuits working their way through the court system.

From Barron's

In the most recent episode of Amicus, Dahlia Lithwick sat down with immigration and constitutional scholar Anna O. Law about her forthcoming book Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship.

From Slate

Nonetheless, our motto on Amicus is “legal knowledge is power,” and in this case, historical understanding of legal knowledge … is power.

From Slate

On this week’s Slate Plus bonus episode of Amicus, co-hosts Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern discussed VanDyke’s appalling dissent, the extraordinary response from his life-tenured colleagues, and the implications of this sordid spectacle for judicial independence.

From Slate