Earlier this week, seven of the city's most active civic groups sided with the Port Authority, saying that additional public funds should be invested in the Sept. 11 memorial, a downtown transit hub and other transportation projects, not the office space.
When the scannermakers asked the federal appeals court to make the Nevada judge consider the unfairness of Lemelson's ploy, six business groups sided with them, and George Sirilla, a patent lawyer in Virginia, urged the court to take the case in a friend-of-the-court brief.
Charles Calvert turned for relief to the Lords of Trade and eventually to the Privy Council, but these groups sided with the Protestants and took away the power of the Calvert family to govern the colony.
Many amicus briefs have been filed in the case by conservative groups siding with the plaintiff and asking the court to end any and all use of race in university admissions across the country.
The group sided with Saddam Hussein during Iraq's war with Iran in the 1980s but the 2003 US-led invasion brought leaders with ties to Tehran to power.
It is impossible to know for sure if the group sided with Mr. Gbagbo because he is a Christian; his rival, Alassane Ouattara, recognized internationally as the winner of last year's presidential election, is a Muslim.
If any one of those groups sides with property owners in the district, the once-grand plans to control construction in central, southern and eastern San Francisco could falter.
A blizzard of television advertisements financed in part by outside groups -- the National Rifle Association backing Mr. Allen and abortion-rights groups siding with Mr. Robb -- had already slashed away at the positions and characters of the two candidates.
Sixteen states have weighed in on the side of EPA,, 14 oppose it; enviros are mostly allied with the Obama Administration while a wide variety of pro-business or right-leaning groups side with industry.
They have other causes but they're also debit card issuers," Durbin says of the NAACP and many of the other progressive groups siding with the banks.
