Center for Democracy & Technology, Electronic Frontier Foundation, et al., Amici Curiae, Andrew J. Pincus, Counsel of Record
The Center for Democracy & Technology and the Electronic Frontier Foundation are two nonprofit groups working to protect personal privacy and individual freedoms in the modern age. They are joined in this brief by Roger L. Easten, who developed the technology behind GPS for the Naval Research Laboratory, two professors of computer science, and one mathematics professor. Andrew J. Pincus is a partner with the law firm Mayer Brown, where he specializes in appellate law. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for Respondent as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on October 3, 2011. The threshold…