Word: liflandã
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...down a federal statute on constitutional grounds, something judges are very reluctant to do, an HRA-based challenge, which can be brought whether or not Harvard University itself agrees to participate, only asks that the statute be interpreted according to its clear language—an interpretation which Judge Lifland??��s decision strongly supports. Additionally, through this avenue, the defendant would not be the federal government, which is likely to defend the statute vigorously, but rather a law school that is on record as opposing the Solomon Amendment...
...university “prohibits, or in effect prevents” military recruiters’ entry to campus or “access” to its students. The crucial legal word choice is “prohibits, or in effect prevents,” because, as Judge Lifland??��s decision explains, “Congress chose not to use language connoting anything less than a total or effective prohibition on the military’s recruitment efforts, such a ‘interfere,’ ‘hinder,’ ‘impede?...
...Lifland??��s opinion suggested that he concurred with FAIR’s claims that Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld has overstepped his Congressional mandate...
...Under Lifland??��s interpretation of the statute, Harvard would lose only a small percentage of its federal research funding. In Fiscal Year 2002, only 4.2 percent of the University’s government support—roughly $16.6 million—came from the Defense Department, according to the University Fact Book...
Lewis said that if the University stays on the sidelines in the wake of Lifland??��s ruling, “it is because Summers supported the military over the value of nondiscrimination...