Word: solomons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
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...
...Harvard professors’ brief could still sway the justices—even if FAIR doesn’t raise the point. The dean of George Mason University School of Law and a prominent Solomon Amendment supporter, Daniel D. Polsby, wrote in an e-mail, “I would not be surprised if the Dellinger brief came up at oral argument.” (The lead counsel on the Harvard faculty brief is actually a Duke University professor, Walter E. Dellinger III, who served as the Justice Department’s top lawyer before the high court under President...
Meanwhile, the government’s lawyers will contend that the Solomon Amendment is necessary “in order to recruit the most talented men and women into the armed services,” as they argued in a brief filed this past July...