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|date=May 2000 | |date=May 2000 | ||
|subject=Constitutional Law | |subject=Constitutional Law | ||
|case_treatment=No | |||
|facts=The petitioner was raped at Virginia Tech by two members of the football team. She became severely emotionally depressed and stopped attending classes and eventually withdrew from the university. She filed suit against the members in the school’s administrative system, and one of the boys was suspended for two semesters. After a re-trial, the boy’s punishment was set aside by a vice president of the college, and the petitioner filed suit in federal court under the Violence Against Women Act of 1994. | |facts=The petitioner was raped at Virginia Tech by two members of the football team. She became severely emotionally depressed and stopped attending classes and eventually withdrew from the university. She filed suit against the members in the school’s administrative system, and one of the boys was suspended for two semesters. After a re-trial, the boy’s punishment was set aside by a vice president of the college, and the petitioner filed suit in federal court under the Violence Against Women Act of 1994. | ||
|issues=#Whether Congress has authority to enact the [[Violence Against Women Act]] of 1994 under the Commerce clause. | |issues=#Whether Congress has authority to enact the [[Violence Against Women Act]] of 1994 under the Commerce clause. |