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...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...
...panel ruled “the government has failed to proffer a shred of evidence” that the Solomon Amendment enhances national security, a prerequisite for the statute’s constitutionality. If anything, the panel argued, the policy “generate[s] ill will toward the military” and “actually impedes recruitment...
...United States continues to believe that the Solomon Amendment is constitutional,” Justice Department spokesman Blain Rethmeier said yesterday. “We are examining the opinion and considering our options...
Students and faculty celebrated the Third Circuit’s ruling but criticized the University’s central administration for failing to take the lead in Solomon Amendment litigation...
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...