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Case Study Mississippi University For Women By Joe Hogan

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: In the year of 1979 in the state of Mississippi, Joe Hogan was denied admission into a single-sex education establishment called the Mississippi University for Women due to his gender. Hogan claims that MUW’s women-only policy violates the Fourteenth Amendment which holds the equal protection clause. MUW states that their policy has shown to have logical reasoning for its existence and claims to have no violation of his equal protection rights.

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