Legal Opinion
Equal Access Education v. Merten
District Court, E.D. Virginia
Decided February 24, 2004No. CIV.A. 03-1113-APublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
ELLIS, District Judge.
In this case of first impression, plaintiffs claim that various of Virginia’s post-secondary educational institutions violate the Constitution’s Supremacy, Commerce, and Due Process clauses by denying admission to illegal aliens or to persons they believe to have an “illegal,” “unlawful,” or “undocumented” immigration status. Threshold dismissal motions by all defendants raise a variety of dispositive issues, which are addressed here.
I. 1
The impetus for this suit and a focus of the complaint is the Virginia Attorney General’s September 5, 2002…
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