Amicus Curiae (friend of the court) briefs of various groups that were not parties to the lawsuit, but had an interest in the outcome. Known responses to the amicus briefs are also included. Amicus briefs are typically not filed in district court cases because (a) district court judges will base their decisions primarily on the extensive record of sworn testimony heard at trial, and (b) cases do not set a binding precendent unless they reach the Court of Appeals or the Supreme Court.

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2005-10-03_DI_amicus_biologists.pdf Brief of Amici Curiae Biologists and Other Scientists in Support of Defendants.	1.16 MB
2005-10-17_DI_Kitzmiller_1st_amicus_brief.pdf Amicus brief of the Discovery Institute. This version of the DI's amicus was excluded after a Plaintiffs' motion objecting to the inclusion of ex-expert Stephen Meyer's expert witness statement.	203.98 KB
2005-10-17_DI_Kitzmiller_AppA_Meyer.pdf Appendix A to DI amicus: Revised expert witness rebuttal report of Stephen C. Meyer (May 19, 2005).	330.72 KB
2005-10-17_DI_Kitzmiller_AppB_ID_not_religion.pdf Appendix B to DI amicus: Documentation showing that the scientific theory of intelligent design makes no claims about the identity or nature of the intelligent cause responsible for life.	145.99 KB
2005-10-18_Ps_motion_to_strike_DI_amicus.pdf Plaintiffs' motion to have the two Discovery Institute-related amicus briefs stricken from the record.	29.99 KB
2005-10-18_Ps_proposed_order_to_strike_DI_amicus.pdf Plaintiffs' proposed order to strike the DI briefs.	8.98 KB
2005-10-24_order_strike_1st_DI_amicus.pdf Judge's order to strike the DI amicus brief and resubmit revised brief without prejudice.	13 KB
2005-10-31_DI_motion_to_file_revised_amicus_brief.pdf Discovery Institute's motion seeking leave to file revised amicus.	93.41 KB
2005-10-31_DI_revised_amicus_brief.pdf (Revised) Brief of Amicus Curiae, The Discovery Institute.	220.21 KB
2005-10-31_DI_revised_amicus_brief_Appendix.pdf Appendix A to DI revised amicus: Documentation showing that the scientific theory of intelligent design makes no claims about the identity or nature of the intelligent cause responsible for life.	146.19 KB
2005-11-04_FTE_motion_to_file_amicus.pdf Motion for Leave of Foundation for Thought and Ethics to File Amicus Brief.	90.07 KB
2005-11-04_FTE_amicus_brief.pdf Brief of Amicus Curiae, The Foundation for Thought and Ethics.	181.09 KB
2005-11-04_FTE_amicus_brief_App_A-D.pdf Brief of Amicus Curiae, The Foundation for Thought and Ethics, Appendices A-D: (A) quotes from "Pandas"; (B) pages from "Pandas" drafts; (C) abrupt appearance quotes from scientists; (D) ID publications which post-date "Of Pandas and People".	248.97 KB
2005-11-04_SciPolicy_Journal_amicus.pdf Brief for Amicus Curiae, SciPolicy Journal of Science and Health Policy.	50.03 KB
2005-11-04_SciPolicy_Journal_petition.pdf SciPolicy's petition for leave to file amicus brief.	11.06 KB
2005-11-07_SciPolicy_Journal_press_release.pdf Press release: "SciPolicy Journal files Amicus Curie [sic] Brief in Intelligent Design Case."	7.79 KB
2005-11-07_SciPolicy_Journal_editorial.pdf Editorial explaining the SciPolicy group's position against "intelligent design."	105.05 KB
2005-11-07_SciPolicy_Journal_Fuller_dissent.pdf Dissent from SciPolicy Journal amicus by Steve Fuller, member of the SciPolicy Editorial Board and also an expert witness for the Defense.	90.83 KB
2005-11-16_Hubert_Yockey_reply_to_FTE_amicus.pdf Hubert Yockey, cited widely in ID literature and in FTE's amicus brief, criticizes various points in FTE's amicus.	124.26 KB
2005-11-29_JSPAN_amicus_brief.pdf Brief Amici Curiae of the Jewish Social Policy Action Network, the Jewish Council for Public Affairs and the Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action in Support of Plaintiffs.	456.03 KB
2005-12-07_Ps_response_to_FTE-DI_amicus.pdf Plaintiffs' response to the amicus briefs of the FTE, the Discovery Institute, and a collection of DI-related scientists.	1.55 MB
2005-12-07_Ps_response_to_FTE-DI_amicus_OCR.pdf OCR version of Plaintiffs' response (OCR, or optical character recognition, takes a "flat" scan that is just an image of the page, reads the characters, and inserts machine-readable text that can be copied, searched, etc.).	3.43 MB
2005-12-12_DI-FTE_reply_to_Ps_response.pdf Reply of DI and FTE to Plaintiffs' Response to Amicus Briefs. [OCR]	379.7 KB
2005-12-12_DI-FTE_motion_to_file_reply_to_Ps_response.pdf Motion of Amici Discovery Institute and Foundation for Thought and Ethics for Leave to File Reply to Plaintiffs' Response to Amicus Briefs.	438.48 KB