Brzonkala v. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Brzonkala v. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University was a federal civil rights case in which a former Virginia Tech student sued her alleged rapists and the university under the Violence Against Women Act, setting the stage for the Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. Morrison on the limits of Congress’s Commerce Clause power.


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United States v. Morrison originatedFrom Brzonkala v. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University