WARD v. REGENTS OF UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF GEORGIA

Civ. A. No. 4355.

191 F.Supp. 491 (1957)

Horace T. WARD, Plaintiff, v. REGENTS OF the UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF GEORGIA et al., Defendants.

United States District Court N. D. Georgia, Atlanta Division.

February 12, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. T. Walden, Atlanta, Ga., Thurgood Marshall, Robert L. Carter, New York City, D. L. Hollowell, Atlanta, Ga., for plaintiff.

Eugene Cook, Atty. Gen., of Georgia, Charles H. Bruce, G. Arthur Howell, and B. D. Murphy, Atlanta, Ga., for defendants.


HOOPER, Chief Judge.

(1) It is now well established that the authorities in control of the operation of any state-supported law school in this country may not refuse admission to any person solely on account of race and color. In all of the decided cases, however, so far as this Court is aware, the decision was either a class action or the qualifications of the applicant were admitted, or had been judicially determined.

This is not a class action but it involves...

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