Rosen, the New Haven-based attorney, said that Monday’s ruling “applies—strictly speaking—only to Yale, because Yale is the only institution directly involved in the case. There is certainly no injunction for any institution other than Yale at the moment.”

In a second setback for opponents of the Solomon Amendment, the House of Representatives passed a resolution by a 327-84 margin Wednesday reaffirming its support for the 1996 statute and calling on the Bush administration to appeal the Third Circuit panel’s ruling.

The sponsor of the resolution, Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala., told The Crimson that the vote demonstrated the “strong bipartisan support” behind the Solomon Amendment.

But the resolution is non-binding, and the Bush administration had already said it would file an appeal.

Bashman said the House resolution was most likely designed to garner press coverage and send a message “to the folks back home,” rather than to influence an already-sympathetic Bush administration.

—Staff writer Daniel J. Hemel can be reached at hemel@fas.harvard.edu.