Word: solomons
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...military has refused to sign that pledge because its “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy prohibits openly gay and lesbian individuals from serving in the armed forces.The decision ends more than two years of litigation over the Solomon Amendment, a law first enacted by Congress in 1994 that permits the secretary of defense to withhold most forms of federal funding from schools that restrict military recruitment on campus.The Pentagon has told Harvard officials that if the Law School were to maintain its nondiscrimination policy and exclude military recruiters, the entire...
...ruling ends more than two years of litigation over the Solomon Amendment, a law first enacted by Congress in 1994 that permits the secretary of defense to withhold most forms of federal funding from schools that restrict military recruitment on campus...
...Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR), a coalition of more than two dozen law schools opposed to the Solomon Amendment, argued that the Pentagon policy violated the schools’ right to free speech and free association. Harvard declined to join FAIR, but the University filed a friend-of-the-court brief backing FAIR's case last fall...
...today’s decision, the court wrote that the Solomon Amendment “neither limits what law schools may say nor requires them to say anything...
...School’s gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender student group, Lambda, formed a task force last year to propose possible measures to offset the impact of a potential case pro-Solomon ruling. Lambda Co-President Jeffrey G. Paik ’03 said that the organization will release a statement this afternoon...