amicus curiae

(noun)

someone who is not a party to a case who offers information that bears on the case but that has not been solicited by any of the parties to assist a court

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Examples of amicus curiae in the following topics:

  • The Function of Interest Groups

    • This is often accompanied by one of the above types of advocacy groups filing Amicus curiae if the cause at stake serves the interests of both the legal defense fund and the other advocacy groups.

  • The Supreme Court

    • With the permission of the court, others with a stake in the outcome of the case may also file an amicus curiae brief for one of the parties to the case.

  • Structure of the Republic

    • Citizens on these assemblies were organized further on the basis of curiae (familial groupings), centuries (for military purposes), and tribes (for civil purposes), and each would each gather into their own assemblies.
    • The Curia Julia in the Roman Forum, the seat of the imperial Senate.

  • The Western Schism

    • This reputation can be attributed to perceptions of predominant French influence and to the papal curia's efforts to extend its powers of patronage and increase its revenues.

  • Erasmus

    • Erasmus had recently returned disappointed from Rome, where he had turned down offers of advancement in the curia, and Folly increasingly takes on Erasmus' own chastising voice.

  • The Seven Kings

    • Tullus is attributed with constructing a new home for the Senate, the Curia Hostilia, which survived for 562 years after his death.

  • Discontent with the Roman Catholic Church

    • The core motivation behind these changes was theological, though many other factors played a part, including the rise of nationalism, the Western Schism that eroded faith in the Papacy, the perceived corruption of the Roman Curia, the impact of humanism, and the new learning of the Renaissance that questioned much traditional thought.

  • The Pax Romana

    • A seat on the consuls’s platform at the front of the Curia.