SIPUEL
v.
BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA ET AL.
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The state must provide legal education to a qualified Negro applicant on the same terms as white applicants, consistent with the Equal Protection Clause.
A qualified Negro applicant was denied admission to the University of Oklahoma's law school solely because of her race. State courts refused her appli…
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Per Curiam.
On January 14, 1946, the petitioner, a Negro, concededly qualified to receive the professional legal education offered by the State, applied for admission to the School of Law of the University of Oklahoma, the only institution for legal education supported and maintained by the taxpayers of the State of Oklahoma. Petitioner’s application for admission was denied, solely because of her color. Petitioner then made application for a writ of mandamus in the District Court of Cleveland County, Oklahoma. The writ of mandamus was refused, and the Supreme Court of the State of Oklahoma affirmed the judgment of the District Court. 199 Okla. 36, 180 P. 2d 135. We brought the case here for review.
The petitioner is entitled to secure legal education afforded by a state institution. To this time, it has been denied her although during the same period many white applicants have been afforded legal education by the State. The State must provide it for her in conformity with the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and provide it as soon as it does for applicants of any other group. Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada, 305 U. S. 337 (1938).
The judgment of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma is reversed and the cause is remanded to that court for proceedings not inconsistent with this opinion.
The mandate shall issue forthwith.
Reversed.
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State Ex Rel. Hawkins v. Bd. of Control of Fla., 47 So. 2d 608 (Fla. 1950)…es for the legal instruction of negroes within the State. In that view, we cannot regard the discrimination as excused by what is called its temporary character." (Italics supplied.) [305 U.S. 337, 59 S.Ct. 236.] See also Sipuel v. Board of Regents, 332 U.S. 631, 68 S.Ct. 299, 92 L.Ed. 247, rev'g. 199 Okla. 36, 180 P. 2d 135; and McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Ed., D.C., 87 F. Supp. 526. The decision of the Supreme Court of the United States from which we have quoted is binding upon this cou…1 / 3
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State Ex Rel. Hawkins v. Bd. of Control, 60 So. 2d 162 (Fla. 1952)…McCabe v. Atchison, T. & S.F.R. Co., 235 U.S. 151, 35 S.Ct. 69, 59 L.Ed. 169; Gong Lum v. Rice, 275 U.S. 78, 48 S.Ct. 91, 72 L.Ed. 172; Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada, 305 U.S. 337, 59 S.Ct. 232, 83 L.Ed. 208; Sipuel v. Oklahoma Board of Regents, 332 U.S. 631, 68 S.Ct. 299, 92 L.Ed. 247. Compare Sweatt v. Painter, 339 U.S. 629, 70 S.Ct. 848, 94 L.Ed. 1114; McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Ed., 339 U.S. 637, 70 S.Ct. 851, 94 L.Ed. 1149. Under the issues as framed and presented, it is our con…
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