Over 50 "friend of the court" or "amicus" briefs filed in Holly Hobby case.

[merrily]

This is just for anyone who is interested in knowing who cared enough to lawyer up and get a brief filed in this case, on one side or another--including one filed on behalf of a significant number of federal legislators.

The list of amici briefs begins under the orange banner. (It could be red or something else in that color family. To the misfortune of my son, a touch of color blindness runs in my family and my spouse's, too.)

http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/sebelius-v-hobby-lobby-stores-inc/

If there are replies, though--and they are welcome--I may not be able to reply as promptly as I would prefer because I will be on and off the board today.

[YarnAddict]

1. Totally off-topic comment about your OP

But I'm interested in your color blindness remark, because my father was color blind and my husband is also color blind. We have two sons and one is color blind and the other is not. I understand the genetics of it, that my cb son may pass on the gene to any daughters he may have, who will not themselves be cb, but whose sons (my son's grandsons) may be.

Just don't understand whast "a touch of color blindness" means?

[merrily]

2. I can usually get in the general neighborhood of a color

family. My son has more difficulty than I do. My wonderful father in law, bless him, yelled "Gray," as he slammed down one of the cards in the Uno deck. (If you've seen the deck, you know there's no Uno gray card and we should never have been playing it with my color blind FIL.)

If color blindness is supposed to be all or nothing, then maybe my son and I have a different color issue? I don't know a lot about it. None of us ever looked into it. I just know that my son and I have difficulty, but not as much as my FIL.

[YarnAddict]

3. Interesting

I find the whole subject of genetics fascinating. My dh absolutely cannot see muted shades of green, which I completely forgot when he bought new chairs to replace some in our patio set. He thinks hee bought nice beige chairs, which will go well with the brown-striped umbrella. They are green, but I'm getting used to them.

My cb son always maintained that his color vision was correct and everyone else had a problem. (speaking of genetics, he got his pigheadedness directly from his father!) It wasn't until he had a vision test prior to applying to Annapolis that he was finally able to admit that the rest of us were okay. Color blindness, unfortunately, was an automatic dq from the academy.

I think you are correct that there are different types of color blindness, with red-green cb being the most prevalent. I once heard of someone who was completely monochromatic color blind--could see nothing but variations of gray.

I enjoyed your story about your fil and Uno! I remember my relatives always had to seat my father in the chair with the best light when they played Rook.

[merrily]

7. Funniest thing about my FIL story was the visual, which

I cannot duplicate. He put down that card and yelled Gray so triumphantly. And he was such a quiet man, too. One of the best men I ever met. All the best parts of my husband and son can probably be traced to his influence. I adore him, more every day, even though he is gone.

[BootinUp]

9. I'm slightly red/green colorblind, not too uncommon

with men actually.

But I have successfully done colormatching work (with the help of a color spectrophotometer).

One thing you can do with computer images is look at it at a sharp angle and the red/green areas are easier to spot.

[merrily]

10. Thanks. Must be hell at a traffic light.

[BootinUp]

11. Brighter color is easier to see like traffic lights.

Duller is harder to see.

[merrily]

12. My FIL was an excellent driver. I guess he was able to discern which was

lit up and which wasn't and went by position, knowing top circle lit meant stop?

I don't know, but, of the three of us, he had the most severe color blindness, yet he never ran a red. He also cursed his sons (and mine) with a total inability to form the cub scout three-fingered salute. Fortunately, my son was more into the Vulcan salute.

[el_bryanto]

4. Alternate source

The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty may not have as complete a listing, but they are broken down into those in support of hobby lobby or opposed to hobby lobby.

The Website itself is problematic though - so take it with a grain of salt I guess.

Bryant

[merrily]

5. Thanks. My google search turned them up first, but I

did not want to use that website, both because of the bias and because I did not want to bless them with clicks and viewers.

The Scotus blog came up next and I didn't search further.

Just selfish, I guess.

[el_bryanto]

6. Fair enough - i was using them to read several of the amicus briefs,

but went to check it out when I was linking it just now and realized that they aren't exactly on the same side of this issue as I am.

Bryant

[merrily]

8. No, you're right. It's good to give the info in that form.

Few of us are going to have the time and inclination to check over 50 briefs to see who is our friend and who isn't.

I was only half kidding when I said I was selfish not to give that link. I should have, with exactly the same caveats you gave.