Noun
an adviser to the court on some matter of law who is not a party to the case; usually someone who wants to influence the outcome of a lawsuit involving matters of wide public interest
Source: WordNetI filed a brief as a friend of the court in the U. of Michigan to keep affirmative action at the U. of Michigan, which I attended the law school. And I was one of the original sponsors of making the Martin Luther King birthday a federal holiday. Dick Gephardt
Friend of the court, the Socio-economic Rights Institute (), showed how, internationally, the crime of incitement was drafted in different ways — but ways that were narrower than what we have in South Africa. Source: Internet
Corruption Watch joins the two parties as a friend of the court at tomorrow's Constitutional Court's hearing of the Nkandla case. Source: Internet
The anti-gay American Family Association of Ohio has submitted friend of the court briefs opposing the name changes in both cases. Source: Internet
Lawyers representing opponents to the sales expected the council to file a "friend of the court" brief to the SJC, opposing the museum's petition. Source: Internet
He says not everyone in the Democratic National Coimmittee was in favor of the party filing a friend of the court brief to support the Vermont law. Source: Internet