Faulkner v. Jones

NIEMEYER, Circuit Judge: We are presented with the questions of (1) whether South Carolina and The Citadel, in refusing Shannon R. Faulkner admission to The Citadel, denied her equal protection of the laws in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment and (2) whether the remedy ordered by the district court is an appropriate one. In a bifurcated remedial order, the district court directed first that Faulkner be admitted to The Citadel's Corps of Cadets ""forthwith"" and second that South Carolina and The Citadel proceed ""without delay"" to formulate, adopt, and implement a plan for women other than Faulkner by the beginning of the 1995-96 school year which conforms with the Equal Protection Clause.