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But Fried said that if the Solomon Amendment suit reaches the Supreme Court, “the case is not open or shut for either side.”
“The Supreme Court does not like to leave a decision out there that says an act of Congress is unconstitutional,” said Fried, who is the Beneficial Professor of Law.
Fried said the Court’s 1987 ruling in South Dakota v. Dole, which held that the federal government could reduce highway funding to states that refused to impose a 21-year-old minimum drinking age, suggested that Congress could not impose unduly coercive penalties for noncompliance.
If the Pentagon found Harvard Law School to be in violation of the 1996 statute, it could cut support to all branches of the University from nearly every federal agency, amounting to more than $400 million annually in lost funds for Harvard—a penalty that the Court might...
As solicitor general in 1987, Fried oversaw the federal government’s legal effort in the South Dakota case.