{"id":38709,"date":"2023-05-09T09:08:02","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T14:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=38709"},"modified":"2023-05-09T09:08:02","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T14:08:02","slug":"word-of-the-day-884","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2023\/05\/09\/word-of-the-day-884\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amici<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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  1. plural of amicus [Wiktionary<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    Ummmm, ok.<\/p>\n

    Amicus<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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    1. Abbreviation of amicus curiae<\/em>. [Wiktionary<\/a><\/strong>]<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n

      Ummmmm, sure.<\/p>\n

      amicus curiae<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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      1. (<\/span>law<\/a>,<\/span>\u00a0US<\/a><\/span>)<\/span>\u00a0A person or entity who has been allowed by the\u00a0court<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0plead<\/a>\u00a0or make\u00a0submissions<\/a>\u00a0but who is not directly involved in the action.\u00a0quotations<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n
      2. (<\/span>law<\/a>,<\/span>\u00a0Canada<\/a><\/span>)<\/span>\u00a0An independent\u00a0lawyer<\/a>, not retained by any party, whom the\u00a0court<\/a>\u00a0has ordered to provide legal\u00a0submissions<\/a>\u00a0regarding the matter in dispute; for example, to provide submissions regarding the situation of an\u00a0unrepresented<\/a>\u00a0litigant<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0accused<\/a>\u00a0person. [Wiktionary<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n

        Ah, a bunch of lawyers! Noted in “Why the Supreme Court should have stepped up on Indiana\u2019s fetal burial law<\/a><\/em>,” Elizabeth Reiner Platt, Religion News Service<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

        Though amici did not get their day in court Monday, it\u2019s increasingly clear that courts will not be able to avoid growing conflicts between ever-expanding religious liberty doctrine and draconian regulations of reproductive health care.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

        Exhausted, I am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        Amici: plural of amicus [Wiktionary] Ummmm, ok. Amicus: Abbreviation of amicus curiae. [Wiktionary] Ummmmm, sure. amicus curiae: (law,\u00a0US)\u00a0A person or entity who has been allowed by the\u00a0court\u00a0to\u00a0plead\u00a0or make\u00a0submissions\u00a0but who is not directly involved in the action.\u00a0quotations (law,\u00a0Canada)\u00a0An independent\u00a0lawyer, not retained by any party, whom the\u00a0court\u00a0has ordered to provide legal\u00a0submissions\u00a0regarding the \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38710,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38709\/revisions\/38710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}