In response to a federal appeals court ruling that colleges and universities may bar military recruiters from their campuses without losing federal funding, Harvard Law School announced it will resume its ban on military recruiters, Dean Elena Kagan announced Tuesday, according to the Associated Press.
On Monday, the third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down a law called the Solomon Amendment, which allowed the Defense Department to deny federal money to colleges and universities that banned military recruiters. The court ruled that the law violated the law schools' right to freedom of speech.
Originally, Harvard Law School banned military recruiters because it said the military's treatment of gays and lesbians violates the school's nondiscrimination policy, but Harvard relented in 2002 when the Defense Department announced it would begin enforcing the Solomon Amendment. The law school, however, was not one of about two dozen law schools involved in the suit, according to the AP.
--Compiled by Christopher Jones
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