Also, according to "Supreme Court Rules in VMI Case” The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, there was a dissenting opinion by Justice Scalia:
"Today the Court shuts down an institution that has served the people of the Commonwealth of Virginia with …show more content…
The Supreme Court ruled that the Commonwealth of Virginia violated the Equal Protection Clause by a 7-1 vote maintaining the publicly funded Virginia Military Institute as an all-male institution. The Court reasoned that Virginia did not show an “exceedingly persuasive justification” for excluding all women from the citizen-soldier training. The district court ruled in favor of VMI so I think Virginia won. The court rejected the equal protection challenge pressed by the Unites States. Virginia proposed a parallel program for women known as the Virginia Women’s Institute for Leadership (VWIL), located at Mary Baldwin College a private liberal arts school for women to remedy the constitutional violation. The district court later decided that the plan met the requirements of the Equal Protection