Texas Woman's University v. Chayklintaste

POPE, Justice.

Vanida Chayklintaste and Caroline-Anne Bolee instituted this suit on their own behalf and on behalf of a class of students, complaining of the constitutionality of a rule at Texas Woman’s University which required all undergraduate women students under the age of twenty-three to live in one of the campus dormitories. The trial court granted a permanent injunction which prohibits the University from enforcing the rule and the court of civil appeals affirmed the decree, holding that the rule was discriminatory on the basis of sex. 521 S.W.2d 949. The sufficiency of the class…