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...policies towards gays and lesbians. Obviously, this was not her choice to make. The financial well-being of the University takes precedent over the policies of any individual school. Nevertheless, these recent developments only further underline the critical need for the entire University community to act more aggressively to overturn the Solomon Amendment and its undue encroachment upon the right of academic institutions to enforce their own internal policies and protect their students’ civil rights...
Waxman’s brief argues that the high court can apply the “unconstitutional conditions” doctrine to overturn the Solomon Amendment without simultaneously undermining the Bob Jones ruling and other federal anti-discrimination policies, such as the 1972 gender equity statute known as Title IX, according to Harvard’s general counsel, Robert Iuliano...
...separate brief that will be filed today, about 40 Harvard professors, including Kagan, urge the high court to overturn the Solomon Amendment, said Smith Professor of Law Martha L. Minow...
Approximately 40 Harvard professors—including Kagan—have signed a separate brief urging the high court to overturn the Solomon Amendment, said Smith Professor of Law Martha L. Minow...
Other planned initiatives include a program to train civil-rights lawyers to be expert witnesses; support of the reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act of 1965; a joint program with the Kennedy School of Government in criminal justice policy; and a pro-bono project to overturn wrongful convictions...