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Monday’s Mass. Hall discussion came less than a month after a majority of HLS’ faculty signed a letter calling on Summers to add Harvard’s weight to the growing number of suits challenging the 1996 Solomon Amendment, which allows the Pentagon to deny...
She added that the anti-Solomon Amendment movement has also been bolstered by support from Tyler Professor of Law Laurence H. Tribe, a constitutional law expert who has helped coordinate faculty strategy.
She noted that BGLTSA has more than 500 members, nearly all of whom she said oppose the Solomon Amendment.
The Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR), a network of 15 law schools and faculties, joined with a professors’ group in September to file suit in U.S. District Court in Newark, N.J., claiming that the Pentagon’s threats infringed upon educators’ First Amendment...
After Judge John C. Lifland, presiding over the FAIR litigation, rejected the Defense Department’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit last Wednesday, some opponents of the Solomon Amendment predicted that other universities would be encouraged to file suit.