Regent Law News

During the quarterly faculty/staff meeting on Monday, July 21, the following law and law library employees received service awards: Professor  Tessa Dysart , Assistant Professor, 5 years Professor  Marie Hamm , Assistant Director for Collection Development, Law Library, 15 year Professor  James Duane 's article " The Proper Pronunciation of Certiorari: The Supreme Court's Surprising Six-Way Split ," which has received  significant press , was recently listed in SSRN's Top 10 Download lists for the following topics: Legal Education (Topic) Law & Rhetoric eJournal Law & Society: The Legal Profession eJournal Professor  Tessa Dysart 's paper, " Child, Victim, or Prostitute? Justice Through Immunity for Prostituted Children ," was recently listed on SSRN's Top 10 Download lists for the following topics: Ethical Issues Family & Children's Law eJournal Women, Gender & the La...

Regent University School of Law acknowledged the Honorable Teresa N. Hammons ’88 ( pictured ) as the 2014 Judge of the Year at its 10th Annual Judicial Internship Banquet held this June. Hammons currently serves as a judge for the Virginia Beach General District Court, where she handles civil, criminal, and traffic cases. Previously, she was the Associate City Attorney in the litigation section of the Virginia Beach Office of the City Attorney, where she managed civil defense litigation, adult and child protective services, employment law, worker’s compensation defense, and prosecution of misdemeanor appeals. She was also a staff attorney for the Tidewater Legal Aid Society, Senior Law Center. Throughout her career, Judge Hammons has mentored countless interns who admire her dedication to the law and how she deeply considers the impact her rulings have on individuals and the judicial system. The Judicial Internship Program began in 1998 when Regent Law matched first-year law stud...

Professor  Kenneth Ching 's recent paper, " What We Consent to When We Consent to Form Contracts: Market Price ," was highlighted in Lawrence Solum's  Legal Theory Blog . Solum, who is a professor at Georgetown Law, highly recommends Professor Ching's piece. Professor  Scott Pryor 's paper, " Municipal Bankruptcy: When Doing Less is Doing Best ," was recently listed on SSRN's Top 10 Downloads list for these topics: Political Economy: National, State & Local Government Intergovernmental Relations eJournal Political Institutions: Federalism & Sub-National Politics eJournal Professor Lynne Marie Kohm 's article, “ The Intersection of Family Law and Immigration: Virginia and the Big Picture ,” will be presented by a North Carolina immigration attorney during a section of a Continuing Legal Education program called “The Intersection of Immigration Law and Family Law.” 

Bruce Cameron, Reed Larson Professor of Labor Law and National Right to Work Foundation (NRTW) staff member ( pictured ), and three Regent Law students participated in Harris v. Quinn , a case argued before the Supreme Court of the United States in January 2014. This summer, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of NRTW; the Foundation's attorneys represented Pamela Harris. Harris v. Quinn investigates whether state-paid home healthcare employees like Harris, who cares for her disabled son, should pay compulsory union dues. Home healthcare employees are friends and relatives of the sick and disabled who choose to provide home care rather than institutionalize their loved ones. Due to declining membership, union leaders asked states that created home care programs to recognize these workers as state employees for purposes of collective bargaining. In June 2014, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Harris and several other employees represented by NRTW staff attorneys, stating that ...

Professor  Bruce Cameron  published an article, " A Good Day for Employee Freedom ," in  Room for Debate , a popular opinion blog in  The New York Times . Read more  here . Professor  Cameron  was part of the legal team that represented employees in  Harris v. Quinn , in which the Supreme Court ruled that homecare workers who are funded by Medicaid should not be forced to pay fees for a union in which they are not a member.  Professor  Cameron  wrote an article for the  Church State Council Blog  entitled “ A Westboro Moment .” He discusses the First Amendment right to free speech and how it relates to Dr. Eric Walsh, a Seventh-day Adventist associate pastor and director and health officer for the City of Pasadena, who was suspended from his job with the City of Pasadena when the city learned of his conservative beliefs. One of Professor  Kenneth Ching 's latest papers, " Beauty and Ugliness in Offer and...

Professor Bruce Cameron published “ A Good Day for Employee Freedom ” in Room for Debate , a popular opinion blog in The New York Times. His post responds to the topic “Union Dues and the Court.” He and three other experts weigh in, answering the following question: “Should public employees be required to pay union dues, even if they don’t join the union that represents them?” Professor Cameron agrees with the Supreme Court of the United States’ conclusion that employees who do not join a union should not be required to pay dues. He cites the recent decision, stating, “… the First Amendment prohibits the state of Illinois from requiring home-care providers to pay union ‘agency fees,’ because those individuals are not full-fledged public employees, and the union uses this money to influence the actions of the government.” Professor Cameron is the Reed Larson Professor of Labor Law at Regent University School of Law. He teaches Religion in the Workplace, Labor Law, and administer...

Noel Sterett  ('10) published " Supreme Court Says Public Prayers Need Not Be to 'generic God,' " an article on the case for public prayer in  Town of Greece v. Galloway . Jeremy Tedesco  ('04) ) was interviewed on  The Blaze TV  about Jack Phillips, a baker in Colorado who refused to make a wedding cake for a homosexual couple in 2012 because it violated his religious beliefs. After the couple sued Phillips for discrimination, Colorado's Civil Rights commission upheld a court ruling that now forces Phillips to make wedding cakes for same-sex couples. Seth Wilson  ('06) wrote " Start Page: Make the Most of Your 24 Hours with Workflow Planning ," an article for the  Indiana Lawyer .