Recruiting banned at law schools.
Since this report was prepared, a lawsuit filed by a group of law schools and professors won a ruling by an appeals court in Philadelphia that the federal law that forces law schools to allow military recruiters on campus is an unconstitutional violation of schools First Amendment rights. A three-judge
"The Solomon Amendment requires law schools to express a message that is incompatible with their educational objectives, and no compelling governmental interest has been shown to deny this freedom," Judge Thomas L. Ambro wrote for the two-judge majority in the U.S .Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
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