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Article: Law schools may refuse military recruiters and keep federal funds.
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- Trial
- Article date:
- February 1, 2005
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Law schools cannot be denied federal funds lot refusing to accommodate military recruiters, the Third Circuit has ruled. The court concluded, 2-1, that the Solomon Amendment--which Congress enacted in 1995 in response to some universities' refusal to provide access and assistance to recruiters--"violates the First Amendment by impeding the law schools" fights of expressive association and by compelling them to assist in the expressive act of recruiting." (Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights v. Rumsfeld, 390 F.3d 219 (3d Cir. 2004).)
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