Word: lifland
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...November, U.S. District Court Judge John C. Lifland, a 1957 Harvard Law School (HLS) graduate and Reagan appointee, denied FAIR’s motion to block enforcement of the statute...
...Lifland may have balked at overturning Pentagon policy because “this is a relatively big hitting thing to do, and often district court judges try to be more conservative,” said Chai R. Feldblum, a Georgetown law professor and FAIR board member...
...December, a U.S. District Court Judge John C. Lifland rejected FAIR’s motion for a temporary injunction suspending the amendment. The group appealed Lifland’s ruling to the Third Circuit Court...
Moreover, the constitutional claims have been rejected both by the American Association of Law Schools (AALS) and by U.S. District Judge John C. Lifland who, in denying plaintiffs’ request for a preliminary injunction, shot down its basic free speech argument in very strong language. Lifland found that the Solomon statue “does not directly target speech…discriminate on the basis of viewpoint;” that its “interference with speech and other protected rights is incidental;” and that “law schools cannot ‘erect...
This is the conclusion that Judge Lifland reached when he noted that the phrase ‘in effect prevents’ refers to “virtually keeping the military from recruiting students or posing obstacles that would normally lead to abandonment of the recruiting efforts...