May 26, 2000
Ruling in Virginia Tech Case, Supreme Court Rejects Federal Rape Law
The U.S. Supreme Court last week threw out a federal statute that gave women and other victims of gender-based crime the right to sue their attackers in federal court.
The decision
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The full texts of the majority, concurring, and two dissenting opinions by the U.S. Supreme Court throwing out the Violence Against Women Act
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