Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1996
Abstract
In United States v. Commonwealth of Virginia' ("VMI"), the Supreme Court has a landmark opportunity to revisit the legal standard courts should use to review classifications which treat men and women differently. The VMI case involves an equal protection challenge to the state's exclusion of women from VMI and its establishment of an alternative, sex-stereotyped women's leadership program as a remedy to that exclusion. The United States, which brought the case against VMI, has asked the Supreme Court to rule that sex-based classifications, like classifications based on race, must be subjected to the highest level of constitutional scrutiny, or "strict scrutiny".
Recommended Citation
Deborah Brake,
Sex as a Suspect Class: An Argument for Applying Strict Scrutiny to Gender Discrimination,
6
Seton Hall Constitutional Law Journal
953
(1996).
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https://scholarship.law.pitt.edu/fac_articles/586
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