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Amicus Curiae Brief — Rasul v. Bush

Supreme Court brief · Amicus Curiae Brief · 2004

The Judicial Branch Has A Duty To Act As A Check On The Executive Branch, gE ae een eae § B. … The Judicial Branch Has A Duty To Act As A Check On The Executive Branch, Even In Wartime.

Amicus Curiae Brief — UnitedHealthcare Insurance Company, a Connecticut Corporation, et al., Petitioners v. Fremont Emergency Services (Mandavia), Ltd., a Nevada Professional Corporation, et al.

Supreme Court brief · Amicus Curiae Brief · Nov 14, 2025

Delta Air Lines, Inc., 463 U.S. 85 (1983) ............................................. 17 Turkiye Halk Bankasi A.S. v. … Delta Air Lines, Inc., 463 U.S. 85, 96-97 (1983). Both prongs provide independently sufficient grounds for preemption here.

Amicus Curiae Brief — Society National Bank v. Warren

Supreme Court brief · Amicus Curiae Brief · 1991

Delta Air Lines, Inc., 463 U.S. 85 (1983).. 8 Sinai Hosp. of Baltimore, Inc. v. National Benefit Fund for Hosp. & Health Care Employees, 697 Pe Be A | enn n EE 15,17 Smith v. … practice which vio- lates any provision of this Act.”

Amicus Curiae Brief — Jason Wolford, et al., Petitioners v. Anne E. Lopez, Attorney General of Hawaii

Supreme Court brief · Amicus Curiae Brief · Nov 24, 2025

Id. at 29 (cleaned up). … Therefore, the law punished these acts with “forfeiture of the arms . . . and imprisonment.” Id. at 697-98. In his dissent, Justice Thomas rejected the analogical validity of these laws.

Amicus Curiae Brief — Wyeth v. Levine

Supreme Court brief · Amicus Curiae Brief · 2009

Johnson, Jhe History of the 1906 Pure Food and Drugs Act and the Meat Inspection Act, 37 FOOD DRUG Cosm. … As the Court has § See, e.g, 42 U.S.C. § 2210 (Price-Anderson Act); 42 U S.C §§ 300aa-10 to 300aa-34 (National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program): 49 U.S.C. § 40101 (Supp. 2004) (Air Transportation

Amicus Curiae Brief — Warner-Lambert Co. v. Wakefield, Individually and as Personal Representative, Trustee, and of the Estate of Wakefield

Supreme Court brief · Amicus Curiae Brief · 2005

.- +--+. eee 5 Miscellaneous John Calvin Jeffries, Jr., A Comment on the Constitutionality of Punitive Damages, 72 Va. L. … of others and/or acted intentionally and with malice towards others.”

Amicus Curiae Brief — Reynolds v. International Amateur Athletic Federation

Supreme Court brief · Amicus Curiae Brief · 1994

act to divest the State of its power to render a valid judgment." … That message generated hundreds of further derogatory comments that prevented the plaintiff from obtaining employment.

Amicus Curiae Brief — Shaare Tefila Congregation v. Cobb

Supreme Court brief · Amicus Curiae Brief · 1987

During that period, each organization has appeared frequently before this Court as amicus curiae to advance constructions of the Constitution and federal civil rights laws that would ensure appropriate … entitled to the protection of his Government. . . and yet that citizen is not entitled to either contract, inherit, own property, work, or live upon a single spot of the Republic, nor to breathe its air

Amicus Curiae Brief — Ziglar v. Turkmen, 137 S. Ct. 292 (2016) (No. 15-1358)

Supreme Court brief · Amicus Curiae Brief · 2016

Human Rights Commission, General Comment No. 29, States of Emergency (Article 4), U.N. Doc. No. CCPR/C/21/Rev.1/Add.11 (Aug. 31, 2001)......32 U.N. … Human Rights Comm., General Comment No. 29, States of Emergency (Article 4) § 8 U.N. Doc. No. CCPR/C/21/Rev. 1/Add.11 (Aug. 31, 2001).

Amicus Curiae Brief — Cox Communications, Inc., et al., Petitioners v. Sony Music Entertainment, et al.

Supreme Court brief · Amicus Curiae Brief · Sep 5, 2025

The Copyright Act does not explicitly define the scope of secondary liability. Restatement of the Law, Copyright, Tentative Draft No. 5 § 8.01, Comment a. … Restatement of the Law, Copyright, Tentative Draft No. 5 § 8.01, Comment c; Cf. Venegas-Hernández v.

Amicus Curiae Brief — Mead Johnson & Company, LLC, et al., Petitioners v. Clarissa Greear, Individually and on Behalf of Her Minor Child B. H., et al.

Supreme Court brief · Amicus Curiae Brief · Jul 17, 2026

Keating, 465 U.S. 1, 15 (1984) (“The interpretation given to the Arbitration Act by the California Supreme Court would therefore encourage and reward forum shopping.”); • Hanna v. … (cleaned up). Nonetheless, “[f]orum shopping . . . has become commonplace in Illinois jurisprudence.” Beatty, supra, at 847. St.

Amicus Curiae Brief — Nike, Inc. v. Kasky

Supreme Court brief · Amicus Curiae Brief · 2003

Long Island R.R., 162 N.E. 99 (N.Y. 1928) (“Proof of negligence in the air, so to speak, will not do.”). … Purolator Air Filtration Prods.

Amicus Curiae Brief — New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc., et al., Petitioners v. Kevin P. Bruen, in His Official Capacity as Superintendent of New York State Police, et al.

Supreme Court brief · Amicus Curiae Brief · Jul 20, 2021

The ban was the result of “students brandish[ing] guns freely, sometimes shooting in the air, [and] sometimes at each other.” … Grant signed the Yellowstone National Park Protection Act into law, making it the nation’s first national park.

Amicus Curiae Brief — Green Tree Financial Corp.-Ala. v. Randolph

Supreme Court brief · Amicus Curiae Brief · 2000

Restate- ment (Second) of Contracts § 211 comment b (1979). … It’s an engi- neering marvel that both heats and cools a room by pulling heat out of the air.

Amicus Curiae Brief — National Small Business United, dba National Small Business Association, et al., Petitioners v. Scott Bessent, Secretary of the Treasury, et al.

Supreme Court brief · Amicus Curiae Brief · May 18, 2026

To that end, many commentators have suggested that community associations make up and comprise the last bastion of affordable housing in the United States. … The Federal Volunteer Immunity Act of 1997, 42 U.S.C. § 139 (1997), expressly provides immunity for negligent acts of volunteers within nonprofit entities.

Amicus Curiae Brief — Skinner v. Railway Labor Executives' Assn.

Supreme Court brief · Amicus Curiae Brief · 1989

As one court of appeals recently commented, “|t| here was expert testimony at trial that a drug abuser would do just about anything to avoid detection.” Rushton v. … The specimen containers from the Conrail engineer and brakeman were shipped by air express to CAMI that night.

Amicus Curiae Brief — Buchanan v. Stanships, Inc.

Supreme Court brief · Amicus Curiae Brief · 1988

See, e.g., Delta Air Lines, Inc. v. August, 450 U.S. 346, 352-356 (1981); Farmer v. Arab- ian Am. Oil Co., 379 U.S. 227 (1964). … In this case, the Death on the High Seas Act contains no provision regarding costs, which means that respondents’ asserted right to costs necessarily is predicated on Rule 54(d) rather than on the Act

Amicus Curiae Brief — Rose Acre Farms, Inc. v. United States, 125 S. Ct. 2541 (2005) (No. 04-1149)

Supreme Court brief · Amicus Curiae Brief · 2005

Again, commentators noted the importance of this still-unresolved issue. … The denominator issue has thus been thoroughly aired below and is now in a posture appropriate for resolution by this Court.

Amicus Curiae Brief — Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council

Supreme Court brief · Amicus Curiae Brief · 1992

First English even made it clear that this requirement extends so far as to include property taken for only a temporary period. … In such circumstances, this Court has declared that com- pensation is due for the period during which the owner’s property rights were denied.

Amicus Curiae Brief — Toledo-Flores v. United States

Supreme Court brief · Amicus Curiae Brief · 2006

Blackstone commented on the vigorous role it played in limiting criminal punishment in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English courts. … Two instances of such reliance bear comment.