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an adviser to the court on some matter of law who is not a party to the case; usually someone who wants to influence the outcome of a lawsuit involving matters of wide public interest- The court has broad discretion to grant or to deny permission to act as amicus curiae.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amicus_curiae (retrieved 03/19/08)
amicus curiae = an adviser to the court on some matter of law who is not a party to the case; usually someone who wants to influence the outcome of a lawsuit involving matters of wide public interest
- Both the ACLU and the Justice Department were amici curiae in a case involving an employer's alleged abuse of his employees civil liberties.
- The cemetery was the final resting place-in voce verbatim via amicus curiae, as he legally explained to the authorities on Montserrat.Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum
- Bar, with his little insinuating jury droop, and fingering his persuasive double eye-glass, hoped he might be excused if he mentioned to one of the greatest converters of the root of all evil into the root of all good, who had for a long time reflected a shining lustre on the annals even of our commercial country—if he mentioned, disinterestedly, and as, what we lawyers called in our pedantic way, amicus curiae, a fact that had come by accident within his knowledge.Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit
- Word was whispered down our line that amicus curiae meant "friend of the court."Melba Pattillo Beals -- Warriors Don't Cry
- The attorneys for the Department of Justice called themselves amicus curiae, saying they were prepared to offer more than one hundred witnesses to support the order for integration.Melba Pattillo Beals -- Warriors Don't Cry
amici curiae = an adviser to the court on some matter of law who is not a party to the case; usually someone who wants to influence the outcome of a lawsuit involving matters of wide public interest