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Just one day after a federal appeals court blocked the Pentagon from cutting federal funds to universities that limit military recruitment on campus, Harvard Law School moved to reinstitute its policy of barring the armed services’ access to students...
...ruling is the most significant development to date in a 14-month-long legal battle over the Solomon Amendment, a 1996 statute which the Pentagon invoked two years ago when it threatened to cut all federal research funding to Harvard unless the Law School gave the armed services broader access to campus recruiting resources...
...vote yesterday, a Third Circuit panel ordered a lower court judge to issue a preliminary injunction barring the Pentagon from threatening universities with funding cuts...
University President Lawrence H. Summers wrote in a letter to gay alums last December that “the Solomon Amendment as interpreted and enforced is bad public policy.” But he resisted a petition by law professors calling on Harvard to file suit against the Pentagon...
Dershowitz said the Law School likely would have acted independently to file suit against the Pentagon if it had not been blocked by the central administration...