Representative Allen B. West (FL-R), Amicus Curiae
R. Lawrence Purdy, Counsel of Record
Representative West, of the Twenty-Second District of Florida, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2010. Prior to that, he served as a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army. R. Lawrence Purdy is an attorney with the law firm Maslon, where he specializes in tort and product liability litigation. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for Petitioner as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on May 25, 2012. To borrow the precise language used by Thurgood Marshall as counsel for Petitioners in Brown v. Board of Education (1954), Respondents in this proceeding, the…
