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In PruneYard Shopping Center v. Robins, (1) the United States Supreme Court held that the owner of a private shopping center who was required by a state court to grant [...]

'The process of obtaining high human capital for fighting units, like readiness for battle itself, cannot be instituted at the last minute.' --General Max Thurman, October 1981 (1) A recent [...]

The Federal Government does not insist on any predetermined level of access; rather, it simply asks what other employers receive. Likewise, the recipient schools remain free to criticize the military [...]

Byline: Cheryl Miller Is the Solomon Amendment a dead letter? The statute, enacted in 1996, forbids federal funding to universities that prohibit military recruiters or Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) [...]

Byline: JOHN F. BANZHAF III The Supreme Court's unanimous ruling upholding the Solomon amendment, which allows the federal government to deny funds to colleges that don't give military recruiters the [...]

CHIEF JUSTICE JOHN ROBERTS'S UNANIMOUS opinion for the Supreme Court in Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic and Individual Rights, upholding the constitutionality of the Solomon Amendment against challenge by a [...]

LAST TUESDAY THE SUPREME COURT heard oral argument in Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights. Rumsfeld, of course, is the secretary of defense. FAIR, as it's more commonly [...]

Byline: KELLY FIELD Washington -- The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments last week over whether colleges can bar military recruiters from their campuses without jeopardizing their federal funds. Among the [...]

Byline: KELLY FIELD Facing pressure from the Defense Department, Harvard Law School has reluctantly agreed to allow the military to use its Office of Career Services to recruit students into [...]

Byline: KELLY FIELD The U.S. House of Representatives adopted an amendment last week that would require the secretary of defense to submit a report listing the colleges and universities that [...]

Byline: KELLY FIELD Washington -- The U.S. Supreme Court announced last week that it would review a lower-court ruling that would allow colleges to restrict military recruiting on their campuses. [...]

Byline: DANIEL MACH A federal appellate court in Philadelphia struck a blow for academic freedom when it ruled in November that the government cannot enforce a series of restrictions on [...]

Byline: HOWARD J. BASHMAN The Philadelphia-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has halted enforcement of the federal statute known as the Solomon Amendment. That statute requires colleges [...]