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...high court??s ruling on December 12, 2000 halted the Florida recount, delivering the state’s electors—and the White House—to Bush...
...Supreme Court??s anticipated ruling on the Solomon Amendment will likely end one era of a troubled relationship between Harvard and the military. By all accounts, the Supreme Court is ready to uphold the controversial law, permitting the Pentagon to suspend all federal funding to universities that deny “equal access” to military recruiters. Although Harvard has periodically suspended and reinstated recruiters’ access in the past, based on the law’s status in the appeals system, the Supreme Court??s expected ruling will add a note of finality...
...regarding the constitutionality of the Solomon Amendment yesterday morning, saying that the government’s position—rather than the law schools’ stance—seemed to resonate more with the justices. At the HLS Harkness Commons, students listened to an audio recording of the court??s arguments just minutes after they ended in Washington. Though only about 12 students were present at the start of the event, over 100 happened in as the clock approached noon. In the case, Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR), FAIR is challenging the constitutionality...
...recruiters as a protest against the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, which bars gays and lesbians from serving openly.FAIR’s lead lawyer, E. Joshua Rosenkranz, will almost certainly cite the high court??s ruling in the Boy Scouts case today.Just as the Boy Scouts have a First Amendment right to exclude gays, law schools have “a First Amendment right to exclude bigots,” Rosenkranz told a Boston College (BC) conference last month...
...Yale Law School graduate as a full-time attorney at a Washington, DC law firm, where he worked until Oct. 1997. He left the profession to pursue writing, and late the next year, he started to work on his first book. Not surprisingly, “Storming the Court?? is immersed in law, focusing on the protracted legal battles that now-Yale Law Dean Harold H. Koh ’75 and a shifting band of students fought against the elder Bush and Clinton administrations on behalf of Haitian refugees detained at Guantánamo Bay. The book...