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“The government’s argument that FAIR doesn’t have the right to challenge the Solomon Amendment without revealing the names of its members violates...the First Amendment protection of legal advocacy,” said Jonathan L. Hafetz, a New York-based attorney...
Hafetz told The Crimson on Saturday that today’s brief will argue in favor of FAIR’s standing to sue, but will not present an opinion on the merits of the Solomon Amendment itself.
In November, U.S. District Court Judge John C. Lifland, an 1957 HLS graduate, ruled that FAIR does have standing to challenge the statute, but he denied the plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction to immediately suspend enforcement of the amendment.
“If the government can compel disclosure of FAIR’s members’ names, it will likely deal a fatal blow to any legal challenge to the Solomon Amendment,” according to today’s brief.
Second, the brief argues that the students who have signed on to the FAIR suit as plaintiffs have standing to challenge the Pentagon’s policy because “the Solomon Amendment has harmed their ability to receive the nondiscrimination message of their schools.”