An appeal is slated to start Monday in the case of a group of Orthodox Yale University students who are protesting the university’s requirement that they live in coed dormitories. In July 1998, a federal judge dismissed the case brought by the “Yale Four” against the Ivy League school. The students say the requirement forces them to violate their religious beliefs.
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