Weighing the Legal Arguments for Gay Marriage from a Federalism Perspective

Birmingham Lawyers Chapter

Speaker:

• Andrew Brasher - Alabama Solicitor General

Speaker:

• Andrew Brasher - Alabama Solicitor General

Alabama Solicitor General Andrew Brasher will join us this month to focus on the principal arguments that proponents of gay marriage are making in the Supreme Court.  Mr. Brasher will discuss the strengths and weaknesses of each argument.  He will evaluate how the Court’s acceptance of any one of these arguments will affect the power of States to legislate in areas outside of the marriage context.  Mr. Brasher will also take questions on the status of Alabama’s gay marriage cases and anything else of interest to the audience.

Andrew Brasher is the Solicitor General of Alabama.  Before joining the Attorney General’s Office, Brasher was an associate at the law firm of Bradley Arant Boult Cummings in Birmingham and also served as a law clerk to Judge William H. Pryor Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit.  Brasher graduated from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review and received the Victor Brudney prize for the best paper on corporate law.

 Cost: $15 for lunch (Please pay at the door and make checks payable to “The Federalist Society”)

RSVP: by Monday, April 20, 2015, to Carolyn Adkins at cadkins@babc.com or 205-521-8687.

CLE Credit has been requested for this event, but has not yet been approved.