'Students of the interim School of Law of the Texas State University for Negroes (located in Austin, whereas the permanent School was to be located at Houston) shall have use of the State Law Library in the Capitol Building * * *.' CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF MISSOURI. Messrs. W. J. Durham, Dallas, Tex., Thurgood Marshall, New York City, for petitioner.Messrs.
We cannot, therefore, agree with respondents that the doctrine of Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896, It appears that the University has been restricted to white students, in accordance with the State law. L… Brown (347 U.S. 483 [1954]) was the most important legal case affecting African Americans in the twentieth century and unquestionably one of the most… The fear of racial mixture migrated to the New World with the earliest colonists. Missouri ex rel. The school's alumni occupy the most distinguished positions in the private practice of the law and in the public life of the State. Tex.Laws 1947, c. 29, § 11, Tex.Rev.Civ.Stat.
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It is apparently on the road to full accreditation. 163 U.S. 537. This Court has stated unanimously that 'The State must provide (legal education) for (petitioner) in conformity with the equal protection clause of the In accordance with these cases, petitioner may claim his full constitutional right: legal education equivalent to that offered by the State to students of other races. PETITIONER: Missouri ex rel. 'Equal protection of the laws is not achieved through indiscriminate imposition of inequalities.' The library contained over 65,000 volumes. : 57 DECIDED BY: Hughes Court (1938-1939) LOWER COURT: ARGUED: Nov 09, 1938 DECIDED: Dec 12, 1938 GRANTED: Oct 10, 1938 ADVOCATES: Charles H. Houston - for the petitioner Fred L. Williams … It may properly be considered one of the nation's ranking law schools.The law school for Negroes which was to have opened in February, 1947, would have had no independent faculty or library. This feature is not available right now. Desegregation, a generic term used to describe elimi… Legal decision His application was rejected solely because he is a Negro.The State trial court recognized that the action of the State in denying petitioner the opportunity to gain a legal education while granting it to others deprived him of the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the On remand, a hearing was held on the issue of the equality of the educational facilities at the newly established school as compared with the University of Texas Law School.
Ransom was on the brief, for petitioner. Gaines v. Canada, 305 U.S. 337, 351 (1938), the Court, speaking through Chief Justice Hughes, declared that "petitioner's right was a personal one. Within the “Cite this article” tool, pick a style to see how all available information looks when formatted according to that style.
Landmark Supreme Court Case Series - Case #517. Supreme Court of the United Sta… Brief for Appellee In 1609, planters headed for Virginia were reminded by a preacher o… Freed finally of slavery's shackles, blacks in America began the long quest for racial equality. The law school to which Texas is willing to admit petitioner excludes from its student body members of the racial groups which number 85% of the population of the State and include most of the lawyers, witnesses, jurors, judges and other officials with whom petitioner will inevitably be dealing when he becomes a member of the Texas Bar.
Canada, Registrar of the University of Missouri LOCATION: University of Missouri School of Law DOCKET NO. In a 6-2 decision, Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes struck down a Missouri scheme whereby the state … (Vernon, Supp.
Named to Supreme Court Gaines v. Canada, 305 U.S. 337, 351 (1938), the Court, speaking through Chief Justice Hughes, declared that "petitioner's right was a personal one. No. 232, 237, 83 L.Ed.
Lloyd Gaines RESPONDENT: S.W.