Word: lambda
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Carlos Vasquez, co-chair of Lambda, the Law School's gay, lesbian and bisexual students association, said he was concerned that, if passed, the new speech legislation might have detrimental effects on some members of the Law School community...
...Hispanic Law Students Association, AALSA,Lambda and the BLSA all have ongoing discussionswith faculty members and Clark...
...dish du jour. Cocktail parties are peppered with objections to the plot: Why does Andy Beckett (the Hanks character) get no more than a chaste kiss from his lover (Antonio Banderas)? Why is his case rejected by 10 lawyers, when even a simpleton knows that the ACLU, the LAMBDA defense fund and many other groups would jump at the chance of a precedent-setting suit? Why is Andy's huge family so conspicuously loving, so unanimously supportive? Why do the good guys have to be so pristine and the bad guys -- senior law partners, of course -- so ostentatiously venal? Andy...
...review decisions by . . . military commanders deferentially." In the name of national defense, the court has repeatedly yielded to the military on issues ranging from a prohibition of yarmulkes to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. To this, Kevin Cathcart, executive director of the gay-rights group Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, responds, "The military has the right to put some limitation on things like First Amendment rights. But the question is, Where is the balance between constitutional protections and military necessity? . . . The military is defining it in an inappropriate place...
None of which will dissuade the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund and the A.C.L.U.'s Lesbian and Gay Rights Project from initiating a class-action suit against the Department of Defense on First and Fifth Amendment grounds this week, in anticipation of the policy's October introduction. Some of the plaintiffs will allow themselves to be named. Others have elected to remain anonymous -- hoping to challenge Sam Nunn's rebuttable presumption without affording their military employers an opportunity to clobber them with...