American Bar Association (ABA)
Amicus Curiae
Philip S. Anderson, Counsel of RecordThe 120-year-old American Bar Association is the leading national membership organization for the legal profession, with more than 400,000 members across the United States. Philip S. Anderson, a partner in the Little Rock, Arkansas, law firm of Williams & Anderson, finished a one-year term as President of ABA in August. He is a 1959 graduate of the University of Arkansas Law School. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for the Respondents as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on December 8, 1998.Under this Court’s decisions in Shapiro v. Thompson, Dunn v. Blumstein…