United States v. Virginia

United States v. Virginia (1996) was a landmark Supreme Court case concerning gender discrimination. The Court ruled that the Virginia Military Institute's male-only admissions policy violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The decision emphasized that state-funded institutions could not discriminate based on gender and that the state failed to provide an adequate justification for excluding women. The ruling reinforced the principle that gender equality is a constitutional right and set a precedent for challenging similar discriminatory practices in education and beyond.