Word: solomonic
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...hearing, in a New Jersey federal district court, was the first in a lawsuit that claims the 1995 law known as the Solomon Amendment infringes on free speech rights because it coerces academic institutions into allowing the military—which discriminates against openly gay individuals—on campus...
...court papers, E. Joshua Rosenkranz, the lead counsel for the plaintiffs, called the Solomon Amendment “one of the most flagrant efforts by the government in decades to use its power of the purse to suppress expression...
...Justice Department argued in its response that the Solomon Amendment is legitimate because it defends the authority of Congress to sustain military forces and appropriate federal funds as it chooses...
...under Justice Department rules, investigators may subpoena, wiretap or seize the records of journalists only with the Attorney General's approval and only after other investigative means have been exhausted. That's not to say it doesn't occasionally happen. In 2001 the Justice Department subpoenaed AP reporter John Solomon's home-telephone records without his knowledge in an effort to glean his sources in a case involving former Senator Robert Torricelli. Other attempts to discover journalists' sources have tended to fizzle because news organizations are willing to take the fight to the U.S. Supreme Court and have a body...
...marriage where a spouse is battered and abused and they finally take the kids and the suitcase and get out of there. They may be sitting in a shelter, but they're finally able to say, 'I'm safe.'" Others may want to hark back to Duncan's Solomon reference, and wonder whether, after all the pulling and prodding, the contested child may not be permanently damaged...