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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.


Etymology

Origin of amicus

By shortening

Example Sentences

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On this week’s Slate Plus bonus episode of Amicus, co-hosts Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern discussed both his order and why it is vitally important for judges to do what he did.

From Slate

The news prompted outrage from press-freedom organizations, including an amicus brief from the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.

From The Wall Street Journal

On this week’s Amicus podcast, Dahlia Lithwick spoke to two scholars and researchers, Sonja West and RonNell Andersen Jones, about the press clause of the First Amendment.

From Slate

On this week’s Amicus, Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern unpack the rationale behind the decision, and the implications for those seeking a remedy.

From Slate

On this week’s episode of Amicus, co-hosts Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern discussed the agreements and fractures among the six-justice majority, and all the ways in which the White House’s pressure campaign clearly fell flat, if it was experienced at all.

From Slate