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Article: Federal Appellate Court Strikes Solomon Amendment; Military May Not Force Law Schools to Give Access to Military Recruiters.
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- November 29, 2004
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NEW YORK, Nov. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- A federal appellate court issued a sweeping ruling today striking the federal law that requires academic institutions to accommodate military recruiters on pain of losing all their federal funding.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled that the requirement violates the First Amendment rights of academic institutions that exclude military recruiters on the ground that they discriminate against gays. "The presence of military recruiters," the Court held, would, at the very least, force the law schools to send a message, both to students and the legal community, that the law schools accept employment discrimination ...