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Re: ALA, ARL, ACRL To File Amicus Brief in Google Book Search=09Settlement

2009/3/3 B.G. Sloan <bgsloan2@yahoo.com>:
> Sandy Thatcher said:
>
> "Doesn't an amicus, by definition, have to be an amicus of one of
> the contesting parties?"
>
> I'm not a lawyer, but I did take six years of Latin. :-)
>
> The full term is "amicus curiae", which translates to "friend of
> the court" (i.e., not necessarily a friend to one of the parties
> in a case or settlement). =A0The Merriam-Webster definition of
> "amicus curiae" pretty much sums it up: "one (as a professional
> person or organization) that is not a party to a particular
> litigation but that is permitted by the court to advise it in
> respect to some matter of law that directly affects the case in
> question."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amicus_curiae

Klaus Graf
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