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WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court seemed unwilling yesterday to accept a gay rights group’s claim that on-campus military recruitment violates law schools’ free speech rights.And the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR), a nationwide network of 36 law schools challenging the Pentagon??s recruitment policy, may have tossed away its only chance at victory by refusing to advance an argument made by 40 Harvard law professors that initially appeared to attract the support of several justices.The statute in question, known as the Solomon Amendment, allows the Pentagon to withhold federal...
Leatherman said the fact that Rumsfeld v. FAIR does not directly address the Pentagon??s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, which forbids open homosexuals from serving in the military, makes the case insignificant to the larger goals of the gay rights movement...
...Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR), a nationwide network of 36 law schools challenging the Pentagon??s recruitment policy, may have tossed away its only chance at victory by refusing to advance an argument made by 40 Harvard law professors that initially appeared to attract the support of several justices...
...court’s decision in the case, Rumsfeld v. FAIR, will have immediate ramifications for Harvard. The Law School has tried to require all recruiters who use its career services office to sign a pledge stating that they will not discriminate against employees based on sexual orientation. The Pentagon??s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy bars openly gay individuals from the military, but Harvard granted the military access to Law School resources this fall after the Pentagon threatened to cut over $400 million in federal funds...
...four justices support the Pentagon??s position, they could then order the full court—including Alito—to rehear the case, according to Fallon...