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According to the complaint, the amendment violates the students’ “First Amendment right not to endorse or associate with employers who reject the Law School’s non-discrimination policy and message.”
Moreover, the students argue, by forcing the law school to suspend its non-discrimination policy solely for lesbian and gay students, “the Solomon Amendment...violates plaintiffs’ right to due process and equal protection under the Fifth Amendment.”
The YLS faculty has also built its case on First and Fifth Amendment grounds. Professors and students have cooperated throughout the legal process, Sofen said.
The anti-Solomon Amendment effort “is a movement that is gaining force fast,” said Sofen. “I wouldn’t be surprised if we see more lawsuits like this in the next few months, including from Harvard students.?...
Ivy League university administrations–with hundreds of millions of federal funds at stake—have been reluctant to come out publicly in opposition to the Solomon Amendment.