The Nashville Lawyers’ Chapter of the Federalist Society presents.......

A Brave New (First Amendment) World:

How the Roberts Court Found Religion

with

Scott Gaylord

on May 27, 2014 11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m.

at

The Law Offices of Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, LLP

Nashville City Center. 511 Union Street, Suite 2700 Nashville, Tennessee 37219

Lunch Will Be Served. If you’d like to join us, please pay $15 by noon on May 26 via this link.

SCOTT GAYLORD is an associate professor of constitutional law at Elon University School of Law, where his scholarship examines the scope of First Amendment speech and religion under the Roberts Court. Based on this research, he was asked to write amicus briefs for cases in the Third, Sixth, Seventh and Tenth Circuits of the United States Court of Appeals challenging the requirement under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) that most employers must provide employees with health insurance that covers all Food and Drug Administration approved contraceptive methods and sterilization procedures..  In his current research, which is the basis for an amicus brief to the United States Supreme Court in City of Greece v. Galloway on behalf of several cities across the country, Gaylord contends that certain prayer policies are constitutional under the Court’s prior holdings in Marsh v. Chambers and Pleasant Grove City v. Summum even when particular prayers contain sectarian references. Before joining Elon, Gaylord practiced with the Charlotte, N.C. firm of Robinson, Bradshaw & Hinson. During seven years with the firm, Gaylord handled complex civil and commercial litigation involving breach of contract, unfair trade practice, bankruptcy and appellate work in both state and federal courts. He served as a law clerk to Judge Edith Jones on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in Houston from 1999 to 2000. Gaylord began his teaching career in 1990 as a teaching fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he received the Students’ Undergraduate Teaching Award. Gaylord received a bachelor’s degree summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Colgate University, and master’s and doctoral degrees in philosophy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a summa cum laude graduate of Notre Dame Law School, where he was a member of the law review and received the Dean Joseph O’Meara Award as salutatorian

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