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Federal court dismisses challenge to 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' US military policy

By Bernard Hibbitts (editor) and University of Pittsburgh School of Law students.

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[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit [official website] Monday dismissed [ruling, PDF] a challenge to the US military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy [statute text; HRC backgrounder] which provides for the discharge of openly gay service members. The suit was brought by 12 gay or lesbian former US-military members [JURIST report] who had been dismissed under the policy. The

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