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The Solicitor General's amicus is in full support of the Fed Circuit's decision, and the Supreme Court has historically taken an SG amicus hugely into account when the SG is not a party to the case.

An amicus brief is not law and the Supreme Court has not yet ruled one way or another.

Is there anyone from the FSF (or similar) who might file an amicus brief?

It's an amicus brief filed by DoJ with the Solicitor General's name of it - a man directly appointed by Obama in 2011.

Many big firms wrote amicus briefs supporting crack downs on the trolls even though they'd lose a lot of money if it actually works.

Tribunals have the clear authority to accept amicus curiae submissions.

An amicus brief has been filed, that is all.

The appeals court overturning Posner's decision about the general copyrightability of APIs and the amicus brief are both good things, because they are based on the correct legal rationales.

While I think it's now too late to file amicus briefs on the cert petition, if certiorari is granted (as Google hopes and the Solicitor General just argued against), anyone can file amicus briefs on the merits.

-- were not covered in that blog post and paint a very different picture of your leadership of Amicus than what you've claimed.

And when issues get to the Texas Supreme Court, politically it seems to almost always be various liberal groups sending in amicus briefs on the pro-civil-liberties side, and conservative groups sending in briefs on the pro-government side.

I'm one of the people who provided text and examples filed in the EFF's amicus brief against, and on balance I'm not a fan of stricter copyright like this, but it's interesting to consider how this ruling could be used positively.

You can "lobby" the Supreme Court, but only via amicus curiae [1] briefs.

This will not work, but the next stage will be "cooperating" with the DoJ and filing amicus briefs in a trumped-up antitrust case.

It's not obvious from the LWN article, but the reason it says "White House" is that lawyers from the DoJ have filed an Amicus Curiae ("Friend of the Court") brief informing them of their stance on the topic.

We're talking about the Solicitor General of Indiana who filed an amicus brief in support of the petitioners [1] -- these are states whose representatives decided they did not want the subsidies, now having those subsidies forced upon them by an outright red-lining of the law of the land under a novel "broader context theory".

The above linked article is a sensationalist hit piece that's riddled with factual inaccuracies -- about my family, about Amicus, and about me.

Amicus (YC S12) is hiring a lead developer and a CTO.