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A majority of the Harvard Law School (HLS) faculty submitted a friend-of-the-court brief to federal appellate judges yesterday arguing that Pentagon attorneys have misinterpreted the 1996 Solomon Amendment.
The briefs support the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR), a network of 15 law schools, which has sued six Bush cabinet officials to halt enforcement of the amendment.
But according to yesterday’s brief, HLS had been in compliance with the Solomon Amendment even before Clark’s 2002 move.
Lifland, in his denial of FAIR’s motion for a preliminary injunction, treated recruitment as conduct, not speech, thereby taking it “out of the First Amendment rubric,” said E. Joshua Rosenkranz, an attorney representing FAIR, in an interview with The Crimson last...
FAIR’s suit is one of a series of pending legal challenges to the Solomon Amendment. Law professors and students from Yale and the University of Pennsylvania already have filed suit.