Swire, currently a professor of Georgia Institute of Technology, endorsed two court briefs claiming that the NSA's program to collect call records (meta-data) of every Verizon phone call was illegal.
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In a separate dissenting opinion, Sotomayor cited friend-of-the-court briefs claiming that Ohio's policy had disproportionately affected minority, low-income, disabled and veteran voters.
Its brief claim to movie fame was as the setting for a car chase in the James Bond film "Goldfinger".
Inside, spun out across two pages, was a brief claim by Graeme Leach, chief economist of the Institute of Directors, about a proposal in the speech that developers be compelled to use rather than hoard land.
What arson sleuths did, the brief claimed, was "less scientific".
The government concedes no ground in its brief, claiming that its interpretation is "the only plausible reading of the Act".
One state legislator has filed an amicus brief, claiming the law was not intended to be used this way, and the Legislature has repeatedly rejected amendments to expand the law's definition of "child" to explicitly mean "fetus".
"We expect it will be welcomed by our allies and the Afghan government," a senior administration official told reporters in a briefing, claiming the decision was to "provide clarity about our enduring support" and "demonstrate continued US leadership".
"Such a result, if allowed to stand, is very dangerous to the music community, is certain to stifle future creativity, and ultimately does a disservice to past songwriters as well," the brief claimed.
