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  • noun law, informal Plural form of amicus.

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Examples

  • Liverpool have abandoned plans for a mosaic on the Kop bearing the word "amici" - friends - to welcome Fiorentina to Anfield for tonight's Champions League fixtures amid concerns it may offend Juventus supporters in the run-up to the 25th anniversary of the Heysel disaster.

    Soccer Blogs - latest posts 2009

  • Even worse, the individuals who are now running his recovery plan -- Summers, Geithner, Bernanke -- are all part of the same corporate-criminal complex, or what the Mafia used to call amici de amici (friends of friends).

    Will Barack Obama Confront Corporate-Criminal Complex? 2009

  • It reveals that Milosevic and his legal advisers cooperated on defense strategy with court-appointed lawyers, known as amici curiae, despite publicly shunning them as he acted as his own defense counsel.

    FOXNews.com 2011

  • It reveals that Milosevic and his legal advisers cooperated on defense strategy with court-appointed lawyers, known as amici curiae, despite publicly shunning them as he acted as his own defense counsel.

    SFGate: Top News Stories By MIKE CORDER 2011

  • For all of Musil's sniping at Lessig (and his unworthy suggestion that I am merely Lessig's dupe) I don't think Lessig claimed that it would (although some of the amici offered arguments for that view).

    Lessig on Copyright, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • The amici hope that this case will not be an exception.

    Lynn M. Paltrow: Should Science Matter for Pregnant Women's Health Care and Rights? Lynn M. Paltrow 2012

  • However, this might be the very reason it might not be challenged, and it might lead judges to look a little harder for reasons to uphold the law and attract interesting amici.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Sex Discrimination in Child Naming Law 2010

  • As Lawrence S. Lustberg, Esq. of Gibbons P.C., co-counsel representing amici, explains: "the New Jersey Supreme Court has been a national leader in recognizing that when cases raise scientific, medical, or other technical issues, the evaluation of these issues must be informed by existing scientific knowledge, including expert testimony."

    Lynn M. Paltrow: Should Science Matter for Pregnant Women's Health Care and Rights? Lynn M. Paltrow 2012

  • Now, having maligned Jammie by accusing her of “false representations” without explaining what he meant, “If we are to receive any funds from this case, it will be solely from plaintiffs if Ms. Thomas-Rasset ultimately becomes the prevailing party which we believe is highly possible given the caliber of the counsel and amici on her side,” Toder says.

    RIAA faces big trouble with new Thomas trial 2009

  • The three leagues joined in an "amici curiae" brief in U.S.

    A decade of planning, ripped out by the roots (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

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