The single-sex admissions policy of the Mississippi University for Women's School of Nursing violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Decided July 1, 1982 (argued March 22, 1982). Opinion of the Court: Sandra Day O'Connor → go there Dissenting: Burger, Blackmun, Powell. Applied: the Fourteenth Amendment → go there Topic: Discrimination based on sex. Mississippi University for Women v. Hogan, 458 U.S. 718 (1982), is a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, decided 5–4, which ruled that the single-sex admissions policy of the Mississippi University for Women violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Wiki link