briefs

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That’s why legal briefs in the case are riddled with citations to an obscure 1915 book by a Boston lawyer named Josiah Henry Benton, who argued that historians had overlooked the practice.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

A pair of Orange County immigration attorneys received temporary suspensions after the court discovered they used generative AI to write briefs that included “multiple nonexistent cases, misattributed quotations, and gross misrepresentations.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026

They were core to the argument that Brock’s lawyers pressed, and were set out in detail in amicus briefs, including one that the Constitutional Accountability Center filed in support of Brock.

From Slate • Jun. 3, 2026

Third parties can also file briefs with the court to assert their own arguments; these are known as “friend of the court” or amicus curiae briefs.

From Salon • Apr. 25, 2026

In November 2009, after the briefs were filed in Joe's case and the Graham case, I went to Washington for my third U.S.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson