Lambda Legal Disappointed by Decision to Vacate Ruling Finding DADT Unconstituti

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Lambda Legal Disappointed by Decision to Vacate Ruling Finding DADT Unconstitutional

Jon W. Davidson, Legal Director|September 29, 2011

http://www.lambdalegal.org/news/pr/us_20110929_vacate-ruling-dadt.html


Jon W. Davidson
Legal Director

"The end of antigay discrimination by the military was required by the Constitution, not just by political considerations."

"We are deeply disappointed that the Ninth Circuit chose to erase the factual findings and legal conclusions...that thousands upon thousands of lesbian, gay, and bisexual service members' constitutional rights were violated for 18 years by 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell.'"
Jon W. Davidson, Legal Director.


"The end of antigay discrimination by the military was required by the Constitution, not just by political considerations."

(Los Angeles, September 29, 2011)—Jon Davidson, Legal Director at Lambda Legal, issued the following statement regarding today's decision by the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals vacating an earlier U.S. District Court ruling declaring "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT) unconstitutional.