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MISSOURI EX REL. GAINES v. CANADA

No. 57.

305 U.S. 337 (1938)

59 S.Ct. 232

83 L.Ed. 208

MISSOURI EX REL. GAINES v. CANADA, REGISTRAR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI, ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 12, 1938.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Charles H. Houston and Sidney R. Redmond, with whom Mr. Leon A. Ransom was on the brief, for petitioner.

Messrs. William S. Hogsett and Fred L. Williams, with whom Mr. Fred L. English was on the brief, for respondents.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE HUGHES delivered the opinion of the Court.

Petitioner Lloyd Gaines, a negro, was refused admission to the School of Law at the State University of Missouri. Asserting that this refusal constituted a denial by the State of the equal protection of the laws in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Federal Constitution, petitioner brought this action for mandamus to compel the curators of the University...

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