California district court judge Virginia Phillips ’82 recently declared unconstitutional the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law governing gay and bisexual members of the U.S. military. Her opinion described the law as a violation of First Amendment rights to freedom of speech and Fifth Amendment guarantees of substantive due process. Since 1993, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” has restricted the military from efforts to discover closeted gay, lesbian, and bisexual service members or applicants—while barring openly gay, lesbian, or bisexual individuals from military service because “it would create an unacceptable risk” to the military’s “high standards of morale, good order and discipline, and unit cohesion.”