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Aals Federal Courts Section Newsletter, Katherine Mims Crocker, Celestine Richards Mcconville
Aals Federal Courts Section Newsletter, Katherine Mims Crocker, Celestine Richards Mcconville
Popular Media
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Brief Of Law Professors As Amici Curiae In Support Of Plaintiff-Appellee, Evan J. Criddle
Brief Of Law Professors As Amici Curiae In Support Of Plaintiff-Appellee, Evan J. Criddle
Briefs
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Faux Advocacy In Amicus Practice, James G. Dwyer
Faux Advocacy In Amicus Practice, James G. Dwyer
Faculty Publications
Amicus brief filing has reached “avalanche” volume. Supreme Court Justices and lower court judges look to these briefs particularly for non-case-specific factual information––“legislative facts”—relevant to a case. This Article calls attention to a recurrent yet unrecognized problem with amicus filings offering up legislative facts in the many cases centrally involving the most vulnerable members of society—namely, non-autonomous persons, including both adults incapacitated by mental illness, intellectual disability, or other condition, and children. Some amici present themselves as advocates for such persons but use the amicus platform to serve other constituencies and causes, making false or misleading factual presentations about the …