Supreme Court to Hear Anti-Gay Recruiting Challenge
May 2, 2005
The United States Supreme Court has accepted an appeal of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court ruling invalidating the Solomon Amendment. The Philadelphia-based appeals court ruled in favor of 25 law schools, who argued that the law, which withholds federal funding from schools that bar military recruiters. The law, which creates a conflict between the schools' non-discrimination policies and the military's anti-gay don't ask, don't tell
policy, had been struck down on appeal last fall.
The Court will hear the appeal in its next term, which begins on the first Monday in October, 2005.
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