A little-noticed brief in a case before the U.S. Supreme Court this fall may launch a novel genre of friend-of-the-court filings: written by a law firm on behalf of no client — not even law professors — and in support of neither side.
Or it might flop, its author Thomas Goldstein of Goldstein Russell readily acknowledges. “I’ve never heard of it being done before — the court is used to lawyers having clients,” he told The National Law Journal. “But that has never deterred me from doing something before.”
