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SCOGGIN v. LINCOLN UNIVERSITY

No. 1259.

291 F.Supp. 161 (1968)

Joseph SCOGGIN, Jr., and Edward Jefferson, Plaintiffs, v. LINCOLN UNIVERSITY and Earl E. Dawson, President, Defendants.

United States District Court W. D. Missouri, Central Division.

September 19, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert B. Curtis, St. Louis, Mo., for plaintiffs.

Norman H. Anderson, Atty. Gen., State of Missouri, Louis C. DeFeo, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, Mo., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

JOHN W. OLIVER, District Judge.

Prefatory Statement

Plaintiffs, two students of Lincoln University, a State supported institution, filed a complaint in which they alleged that defendants, the governing officials of that institution, acting under color of State law, deprived them of rights guaranteed them by the First, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States. Jurisdiction was appropriately...

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