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...brief moment Tuesday, the Supreme Court appeared ready to rule that law schools can bar military recruiters from campus without losing federal funds...
Harvard Law School and many of its peers require on-campus recruiters to pledge that they will not discriminate against gay applicants. But the military has refused to sign the pledge. A brief submitted to the high court in September by the former acting solicitor general, Walter E. Dellinger III, and 40 Harvard professors contends that the law schools’ policies don’t violate the Solomon Amendment’s “equal access” provision because all recruiters—not just the military—face the same nondiscrimination requirement...
...question that court watchers are now trying to answer is whether Rosenkranz’s statement effectively ended the chance that the Harvard professors’ brief would prevail...
...Rosenkranz killed the Harvard brief argument,” University of Mississippi law professor Paul M. Secunda ’93 said...
Dellinger said he was “pleased that five different justices at least raised the issue that was presented by our brief...