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amicus

/uh-mahy-kuhs, uh-mee-/US // əˈmaɪ kəs, əˈmi- //

阿米斯,阿姆斯壮,阿门,阿米拉

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    Law.

    • : of, relating to, or representing an amicus curiae, a friend of the court: The church stated its official position in an amicus brief.

Examples

  • Ten states filed an amicus brief asking the court to consider the case.

  • In fact, more than 60 amicus briefs have been filed in the case, with voting rights groups, Senators and even states weighing in.

  • Software developers, computer scientists, and tech industry groups who filed amicus briefs on Google’s behalf celebrated the ruling.

  • More than half of the House Republican Conference signed on to an amicus brief supporting a Texas lawsuit seeking to overturn the 2020 contest in the Supreme Court, along with 17 Republican attorneys general.

  • Griffith said in a statement that his name was “inadvertently” left off the amicus brief in the rush to file the document on Thursday, but that it would be added on Friday.

  • He co-authored the amicus brief filed on behalf of 23 pro-life groups.

  • But Huntsman was one of the conservatives who signed the Supreme Court amicus brief against Prop 8.

  • On the “Above the Law ” blog David Lat called it the “Best Amicus Brief Ever.”

  • He often files amicus briefs, especially in cases where constitutionally guaranteed rights are imperiled.

  • Nearly 60 new Republican notables have signed an amicus brief filed to the Supreme Court today in support of the freedom to marry.

  • In the right centre was the large painting representing Crete, above which was the motto "Amicus inter Amicos."

  • Amicus Plato, magis amica veritas; Teufelsdrockh is our friend, Truth is our divinity.

  • Examples of yet higher devotion to a fides amicus, so to speak, are by no means extraordinary.

  • Venit vel rogatus ut amicus, vel arcessitus ut socius, vel evocatus ut qui senatui parere didicisset.

  • Alba tunc antiquissimus non solum amicus, verum etiam amator.