Word: lifland
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...November, U.S. District Court Judge John C. Lifland, a 1957 HLS graduate, denied FAIR’s motion for a temporary order suspending enforcement of the Pentagon’s recruitment policy. FAIR responded by appealing Lifland’s decision to the Third Circuit...
...November, U.S. District Court Judge John C. Lifland, an 1957 HLS graduate, ruled that FAIR does have standing to challenge the statute, but he denied the plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction to immediately suspend enforcement of the amendment...
...Lifland ruled in November that law schools could convey their opposition to discrimination against gays even while accommodating a military presence on campus...
...Lifland, in his denial of FAIR’s motion for a preliminary injunction, treated recruitment as conduct, not speech, thereby taking it “out of the First Amendment rubric,” said E. Joshua Rosenkranz, an attorney representing FAIR, in an interview with The Crimson last week...
...Judge Lifland got it wrong,” Rosenkranz said. “He made one mistake that permeated the entire opinion: to treat nondiscrimination policies as conduct rather than as speech and thereby to take it out of the First Amendment rubric...