October 3, 2003
Lawsuit Seeks to Bar Military Recruiters
A coalition of law schools, professors, and students sued the U.S. Department of Defense in September, seeking to reclaim the right to bar military recruiters from their campuses because of objections to the Pentagon's ban on openly gay personnel in the armed forces.
The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Newark, N.J., challenges the constitutionality of the Solomon Amendment, a law enacted in 1995 to prevent colleges that bar military recruiters from receiving funds from specified
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