And a party brief known as Document Number 9, circulated to all government offices in 2013, accuses NGOs of cultivating "anti-China forces".
The party briefed Sunday newspapers on new policies to tackle "rip-off" fees charged by letting agents and suggested a new voting age of 16 could be made compulsory.
Though neither of these cases made it to the Supreme Court, GLAD coordinated the amicus briefs and the party briefs in United States v. Windsor, the DOMA case that did reach the Supreme Court.
At the morning pre-party briefing, before my brother and sister go to work on Wednesday, several decisions are made and unmade, and I am given a list of things to buy.
How likely is it that judges actually read the parties' briefs and the underlying exhibits?
Supreme Court opinions can also be a sort of pastiche, with passages borrowed from the parties' briefs.
It is the contested ground on which the health care case has been fought in the lower courts and in the parties' briefs.
"After full consideration of the parties' briefs and oral argument, the court hereby denies the petition to vacate the arbitration award and grants the cross-petition to confirm the award," Judge Rakoff wrote.
Using antiplagiarism software, Pamela C. Corley, a political scientist at Vanderbilt, found in a 2007 study in Political Research Quarterly that about 10 percent of the prose in majority opinions from the three terms that concluded in 2005 came from the parties' briefs.
