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At the time, Black students could attend no law school specifically in the state. Gaines cited that the refusal violated the Fourteenth Amendment. The State of Missouri had offered to pay for Gaines's tuition at an adjacent state's law school, which he turned down. Gaines, assisted by the NAACP, sued the all-white university in 1935.
Houston said the state's offer to pay for Gaines to attend law school out of state could not guarantee him a legal education equal to that offered white students at Missouri. [ 8 ] A month later a 6-2 [ b ] majority ordered the State of Missouri either to admit Gaines to the University of Missouri School of Law or to provide another school of ...
Citing the 1938 case Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada, a case in which "Lloyd Gaines, a negro, was refused admission to the School of Law of the University of Missouri". [2] The petitioners, acting on behalf of Miss Sipuel, were Thurgood Marshall of New York City, and Amos Hall, of Tulsa (also on the brief Frank D. Reeves).
Held that state taxpayers do not have standing to challenge to state tax laws in federal court. 9–0 Massachusetts v. EPA: 2007: States have standing to sue the EPA to enforce their views of federal law, in this case, the view that carbon dioxide was an air pollutant under the Clean Air Act. Cited Georgia v. Tennessee Copper Co. as precedent ...
The teaching style based on casebooks is known as the casebook method and is supposed to instill in law students how to "think like a lawyer." [1] The casebook method is most often used in law schools in countries with common law legal systems, where case law is a major source of law.
The court also tossed out a conservative challenge to a fiscal summary of the measures prepared by Missouri State Auditor Scott Fitzpatrick, a Republican. Critics of the summary said the estimated ...
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey has initiated legal action against Starbucks Corp (NASDAQ:SBUX), alleging the company breached both federal and state anti-discrimination laws. The lawsuit ...
Missouri v. Jenkins, 515 U.S. 70 (1995), is a case decided by the United States Supreme Court.On June 12, 1995 the Court, in a 5–4 decision, reversed a district court ruling that required the state of Missouri to correct intentional racial discrimination in Kansas City schools by funding salary increases and remedial education programs.