Routine political amicus briefs by tech firms diminish their court impact
Erin Murphy · a16z Podcast | Tech Policy and the Courts · Jan 2, 2019 · at 14:38
Appellate attorney Erin Murphy argues at the a16z Tech Policy Summit that predictable corporate amicus filings erode their legal effectiveness with judges.
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“I think it diminishes the importance of the briefs to the court because it starts to become more just like how, and you have plenty of the, plenty of groups like that on both sides of the dialogue in cases that you know are going to show up, and they're going to file, and you know what they're going to say before you read their brief”
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