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HIGH TECH GAYS v. DEFENSE INDUS. SEC. CLEAR. OFF.

No. C 84-6078 TEH.

668 F.Supp. 1361 (1987)

HIGH TECH GAYS; Timothy Dooling; Joel Crawford; Robert Weston; and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL SECURITY CLEARANCE OFFICE; Director of Defense Industrial Security Clearance (now G.M. Crane); Defense Investigative Service: Director of Defense Investigative Service (now Thomas J. O'Brien); and Secretary of Defense (now Caspar Weinberger), Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. California.

August 19, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Gayer, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiffs.

Joseph Russoniello, U.S. Atty., Stephen Schirle, Asst. U.S. Atty., San Francisco, Cal., for defendants.

ORDER

THELTON E. HENDERSON, District Judge.

This case is a nationwide class action challenging the Department of Defense's policy of subjecting lesbian and gay applicants for Secret and Top Secret industrial security clearances to expanded investigations and mandatory adjudications because they are lesbian or gay.1 The case requires the Court to decide whether the United States Constitution permits the Department of Defense,...

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