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...Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR), a group of over two dozen law schools that does not include Harvard, filed a suit against the Bush administration in Sept. 2003 charging that the amendment is unconstitutional...
Professor of Law Janet Halley, an expert on military policy towards gays, said that if the high court sides with FAIR and rules that the Solomon Amendment is unconstitutional, other federal provisions—including Title IX, a 1972 statute that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex—may be placed in jeopardy...
Last November, a three-judge federal appellate panel sided with FAIR, suspending the enforcement of the Solomon Amendment. But in May, the Supreme Court said it would take up the case, placing the panel’s decision on hold...
Even if the high court rules against FAIR, Solomon Amendment opponents may continue to fight the Pentagon policy in court for years to come, according to the Watson visiting professor of law at Harvard, Stephen B. Burbank...
...tenured professor at University of Pennsylvania Law School, Burbank is the lead plaintiff in a suit that has been placed on hold while the Supreme Court considers the FAIR case...