1st Circuit rejects “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” challenge

How Appealing reports that the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected a challenge to the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, thereby, creating a circuit split with the 9th Circuit over the scope and meaning of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Lawrence v. Texas.

The opinion is: Cook v. Gates, No. 06-2313 (1st Cir. June 9, 2008).

ADF’s press release on the ruling is here.

Eugene Volokh has this commentary on the ruling on the Volokh Conspiracy.