Blanket consents at the cert. stage do not carry over to the merits. File a new blanket-consent letter. /2pic.twitter.com/0c9AhKMRkQ
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Blanket consents at the cert. stage do not carry over to the merits. File a new blanket-consent letter. /2pic.twitter.com/0c9AhKMRkQ
No, really, your amicus brief doesn't have to restate the Question Presented. /3pic.twitter.com/dwQtVk9iMg
What to do about long captions: Continue on the inside cover. Don't bump the counsel of record information. /4pic.twitter.com/kW80CtknZl
Don't try to send a letter telling the Court that someone else wants to tag along on the brief, after it was filed. The Court doesn't really care. /5pic.twitter.com/n38cg9U4DC
No matter how much you love your summer associates or interns, you can't list or thank them anywhere in the brief. /6pic.twitter.com/75e9wodqA9
The Court affirmatively blesses the practice of attorneys (and, by extension, firms) being counsel on more than one amicus brief in a case. (Subject, of course, to your conflicts obligations.) /7pic.twitter.com/PuPmoOtioL
This was a point of contention: Court allows amici to be listed in a separate appendix, and exempt from word count, but "any description of the amici and of their interests in the case must be included in the body of the brief and must count towards the word limit." /8pic.twitter.com/0c3WAaeiCA
This forbids long descriptions of organizations and why they care about the case. Unclear if it forbids brief descriptions, like "John Smith, CEO, Big Corp." or "Jane Jones, Former Register of Copyright." Taken literally, it allows just a list of names or organizations. /9
Some guidance when you file the same amicus brief in multiple cases, especially as relates to e-filing. /10pic.twitter.com/8QmFTSTgWE
Finally, "[t]he filing of amicus briefs in connection with emergency applications is strongly discouraged." You see these sometimes in death cases. Court seems to be trying to send signal not to bother, but not clear if actual practice will change given stakes. /Finpic.twitter.com/XXvMlI5kpl
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