Legal Niches

Industry Supporters in SCOTUS Case May ?Equal or Exceed? Detractors

By pete_gallagher

As a September deadline looms for submitting amicus briefs in the Schwarzenegger v. EMA Supreme Court case, both sides are still hard at work recruiting advocates.

In an excellent Law.com story on the subject, a few claims and quotes jump out, including a comment from Activision Blizzard EVP and Chief Public Policy Officer George Rose, who said, 'We wouldn't be surprised if the number [of states siding with the industry] was equal or exceeded the number backing California.'

Meanwhile both California Supervising Deputy Attorney General Zackery Morazzini, who will argue California's side on November 2, and Louisiana Department of Justice Appellate Chief S. Kyle Duncan, who authored the brief for states backing the California law, seem to think that Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff 'is taking the lead in drafting a brief supporting the industry and discussing it with AGs of other states.'
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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on September 01, 2010 (boomark / email).