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In a second setback for opponents of the Solomon Amendment, the House of Representatives passed a resolution by a 327-84 margin Wednesday reaffirming its support for the 1996 statute and calling on the Bush administration to appeal the Third Circuit panel’s ruling.
“Both find that the statute violates the [law schools’] right of freedom of association and also amounts to compelled speech that violates the First Amendment,” said David N. Rosen ’65, a New Haven-based attorney who represented the Yale...
But elsewhere in recent weeks, opponents of the Solomon Amendment suffered a pair of setbacks.
First, on January 20, Judge Thomas L. Ambro of the Third Circuit, responding to a request from government lawyers, ruled that the court’s decision to strike down the Solomon Amendment would not go into effect “until further order.” The government now...
“It does not look like Harvard is yet a direct beneficiary of any ruling that invalidates the Solomon Amendment,” Bashman said.