Ninth Circuit Amici Filings
October 26, 2010
Amici or “friend-of-the-court” briefs are filed by organizations and individuals who are not parties in a case to offer information to the court.
A broad and diverse array of civil rights organizations, religious groups, medical and teachers associations, and legal scholars filed 25 amici supporting AFER’s case before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
- ACLU, GLAD, Lambda Legal, and NCLR
- American Anthropological Association, et al.
- American Psychological Association, California Psychological Association, American Psychiatric Association, and American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy
- Anti-Defamation League
- Asian American Justice Center, et al.
- BALIF, et al.
- California Faith for Equality, et al.
- California Professors of Family Law
- California Teachers Association
- Constitutional Accountability Center
- Constitutional Law and Civil Procedure Professors
- Cravit, Tamara L.
- Eisenberg, Jon B.
- Equality California (Imperial County Appeal)
- Equality California (Main Appeal)
- Equality Federation, et al
- Howard University School of Law Civil Rights Clinic and Americans United for Separation of Church and State
- King, Justice Donald B., (Ret.) and the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (“AAML”)
- Legislators from United States Jurisdictions That Have Legalized Same-Sex Marriage
- The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
- NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc
- National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Foundation, Human Rights Campaign, American Humanist Association and Courage Campaign Institute
- National LGBT Bar Association
- Professors of Constitutional Law (Eskridge, et al.)
- Southern Poverty Law Center