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The brief seeks to overturn the law, which it said "trampled on Mrs. Schiavo's right to privacy, self-determination and personal dignity".

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. issued a statement that tied the government's argument into the fundamental struggle against discrimination and for civil rights, saying that the brief "seeks to vindicate the defining constitutional ideal of equal treatment under the law".

The government had already submitted a brief seeking to preclude that defense.

Two years later, George represented Mother Teresa before the Supreme Court in an amicus brief seeking the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

"For this," the lawyers wrote in their brief seeking a stay, "the state built its case on junk science, willful ignorance and profoundly problematic DNA evidence".

In a brief seeking to have its case certified as a class action, Aurelius said that MBIA had hidden the Lehman report from the insurance commissioner.

Lawyers for New York State yesterday filed a brief seeking to overturn a landmark court decision that New York City's school system was constitutionally substandard and that its financing methods must be reformed.

"Surely federal habeas law should not be understood to establish a Kafkaesque regime in which a wrongfully convicted and actually innocent person may challenge continuing burdensome registration requirements only by committing a new crime that will return him to prison," Mr. Wilson's lawyers at the Yale Law School's Supreme Court Clinic wrote in a brief seeking Supreme Court review.

As White House counsel, conservatives say, Mr. Gonzales softened the administration's position in a pair of Supreme Court cases in 2003 involving affirmative action at the University of Michigan, rejecting efforts by others in the administration to file a friend-of-the-court brief seeking an all-out constitutional ban on such programs.

Last week, the Department of Justice filed an amicus brief seeking to make an author of some of the "torture memos" immune from the actions committed as result of the memos.

AUSTIN, Texas, Nov 10 (Reuters) - A bipartisan and high-profile group of lawyers on Monday filed a brief seeking to have abuse of power felony charges against Texas Governor Rick Perry thrown out, arguing the indictment against him is constitutionally flawed.