Legal Opinion
Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights, Inc.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 6, 2006No. 04-1152PublishedCited by 915 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Roberts
When law schools began restricting the access of military recruiters to their students because of disagreement with the Government’s policy on homosexuals in the military, Congress responded by enacting the Solomon Amendment. See 10 U. S. C. § 983 (2000 ed. and Supp. IV). That provision specifies that if any part of an institution of higher education denies military recruiters access equal to that provided other recruiters, the entire institution would lose certain federal funds. The law schools responded by suing, alleging that the Solomon Amendment infringed their First Amendment freedoms…
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