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Anthony B. Sanders, Associate
A litigation specialist for Arnold and Kadjan’s appellate practice, Mr. Sanders has authored briefs in three appeals to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and argued a case in a labor arbitration appeal. He has served as special counsel to the Illinois Director of Labor for the prosecution of violations to the Illinois Prevailing Wage Act. This resulted in the debarment of contractors from bidding on public works projects for two years. Mr. Sanders has also negotiated and settled the prosecution of ERISA collection actions for fund clients, regularly appearing before courts in Illinois and Indiana.
Before joining Arnold and Kadjan in 2005, Mr. Sanders was clerk to Justice W. Willian Leaphart of the Supreme Court of Montana. He also worked for the Institute for Justice and the Center for Individual Rights, preeminent public interest law firms in Washington D.C., as well as the Cato Institute, an internally recognized think tank.
Education
University of Minnesota School of Law, J.D. cum laude, 2004
- Served on the Law Review
- Won an exclusive award for “Outstanding Board Publication”
University of Wisconsin-Madison, M.A., 2000
Hamline University, B.A. cum laude, 1998
Bar Admissions
Illinois Supreme Court
Minnesota Supreme Court
U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois
U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit
U.S. Court of International Trade
Organizations
Chicago Bar Association
- Vice Chair, Civil Rights and Constitutional Law Committee
Pacific Legal Foundation
Chicago Lawyers Division of the Federalist Society, a constitutional debate organization
Illinois Bar Association
Publications
The “New Judicial Federalism” Before its Time: A Comprehensive Review of Economic Substantive Due Process Under State Constitutional Law Since 1940 & the Reasons for Its Recent Decline, 55 Am. U.L. Rev. 457 (2005)
In Defense of Vote Buying: How “Nader Traders” Can Defeat Rent Seeking, 26 Hamline J. Pub. L. & Pol’y 43 (2004)
Comment: Exhumation Through Burial: How Challenging Casket Regulations Helped Unearth Economic Substantive Due Process in Craigmiles v. Giles, 88 Min. L. Rev. 668 (2004)
Posner, Hayek & The Economic Analysis of Law, co-authored with Todd J. Zywicki, George Mason School of Law
Of All Things Made in America, Why are We Exporting the Penn Central Test?
Federal Jurisdiction Over the Collection of Liquidated Damages in Collective Bargaining Agreements |
