Word: solomonic
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...case now before the Supreme Court, Rumsfeld v. FAIR, pits the secretary of defense and five other cabinet officials against the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights, a nationwide coalition of 36 anti-Solomon Amendment law schools. Harvard is not a member of the coalition, but the University has filed a friend-of-the-court brief backing FAIR, and half of the Harvard Law faculty has submitted a separate brief in the case...
...Harvard, the financial stakes are enormous. If the court upholds the Solomon Amendment, Harvard would lose over $400 million in federal funds each year unless it continues to exempt the military from the nondiscrimination pledge...
FAIR argues that the Solomon Amendment violates law schools’ freedom of association by forcing them to cooperate with military recruiters. The coalition also argues law schools have a “right to be free from government-compelled speech,” and that they can’t be forced to disseminate the military’s recruiting messages...
...Harvard Law professors who filed a friend-of-the-court brief in September don’t think so. “[T]here is no way of deciding the Solomon Amendment’s constitutionality, either way, without venturing into uncharted terrain,” the professors wrote...
...text of the Solomon Amendment requires schools to give recruiters access to students “at least equal in quality and scope to the access...that is provided to any other employer.” Since all employers must comply with the nondiscrimination requirement, Harvard and other law schools can hold the military to this pledge without violating the Solomon Amendment, according to the professors’ brief...