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A decision against the gun companies would hold that in selling guns that ultimately end up being used in murders, gun manufacturers violate a written law and can thus be held responsible for the murders in which the guns are used. However, on both a federal and state level, legislatures...
Sometimes in the next few weeks, Reps Barney Frank '61-'62 (D-Newton) and Thomas J. Campbell (R-Calif.) will introduce legislation to overturn a part of a federal law denying funding to law schools that prohibit military recruitment on campus because of the military's policy on gays.
The current law, passed last year as the "Solomon Amendment," allows the government to withhold federal grants, like Stafford Loans and Pell Grants, to law schools that don't comply. The law has put law schools across the country in a predicament: stand by their principles and risk losing federal...
The Campbell-Frank Amendment, which will be introduced in the coming weeks, is designed to preserve federal financial aid funds for students at schools that ban military recruiters.
"If there are institutions willing to acceptthe dollars of the federal government, it seemshypocritical to stiff-arm that branch of thegovernment that protects society," said William R.Teator, a spokesperson for Solomon.