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Article: First Amendment - unconstitutional conditions - Third Circuit holds the Solomon Amendment unconstitutional.(Case Note)
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- Harvard Law Review
- Article date:
- June 1, 2005
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FIRST AMENDMENT--UNCONSTITUTIONAL CONDITIONS--THIRD CIRCUIT HOLDS THE SOLOMON AMENDMENT UNCONSTITUTIONAL. --Forum for Academic & Institutional Rights (FAIR) v. Rumsfeld, 390 F.3d 219 (3d Cir. 2004), cert. granted, 73 U.S.L.W. 3648 (U.S. May 2, 2005) (No. 04-1152).
"[T]ell[] recipients of Federal money at colleges and universities that if you do not like the Armed Forces ... that is fine.... But do not expect Federal dollars to support your interference with our military recruiters." (1) In offering such support for his amendment to the 1995 defense appropriations bill, Representative Gerald Solomon raised one of the "trickiest issues" in First Amendment law: the ...