The brief was filed in connection with Supreme Court docket No. 25-798, a case that challenges the constitutionality of the California Talent Agencies Act (TAA) and addresses issues affecting ...

Whether proving a lack of general applicability under Employment Division v. Smith requires showing unfettered discretion or categorical exemptions for identical secular conduct; (2) whether Carson v.

Amicus curiae briefs are deeply woven into the fabric of modern federal appellate practice. Indeed, amici curiae submit briefs in approximately ninety percent of the cases that the United States ...

The term “amicus curiae” or “amici curiae” is a phrase in Latin that plainly means “friend(s) of the court.” This is someone who is not a party to a lawsuit or someone solicited by any parties to a ...

The modern history of state attorneys arguing as amicus curiae in the Supreme Court began with then-Ohio State Solicitor Jeffrey Sutton’s 1997 argument in City of Boerne v. Flores. For a decade ...

Anthony J. Franze and R. Reeves Anderson, members of Arnold & Porter's Appellate and Supreme Court practice, review the 2017-18 amicus curiae docket. Four things dominated the Supreme Court's 2017 ...

A record number of amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) briefs were filed in the two cases challenging the University of Michigan’s affirmative action policy, which the Supreme Court heard this ...

Lawyers know about amicus curiae (friend of the court) briefs, which give interested or expert third parties an opportunity to provide courts with a perspective that the parties might have omitted.