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The suit also charges that the Defense Department, by forcing the faculty to participate in discrimination against gay students, has violated the professors’ Fifth Amendment right to due process.
The suit charges that the Solomon Amendment violates faculty members’ First Amendment right to free association because it requires them to cooperate with discriminatory employers.
The two suits come less than a month after a broad coalition of law schools and professors, calling itself the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR), filed a challenge to the Solomon Amendment in a U.S. District Court in Newark.
“While I welcome the Yale faculty’s suit, the best way for schools to show their opposition to the Solomon Amendment is to join FAIR,” Greenfield said.
“The university continues to believe that they can negotiate with the Department of Defense and persuade the Defense Department that our nondiscrimination policy is in compliance” with the Solomon Amendment, Burt said.