Sipuel+v.+Board+of+Regents

=Sipuel v. Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma= 332 U.S. 631 (1948)

Here, the plaintiff was a qualified applicant to the University of Oklahoma School of Law, and she was denied admission only because of her race.

In a short, per curiam opinion, the Court held that "[t]he State must provide [legal education afforded by a state institution] 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. For this proposition, the Court relied squarely on //Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada//.

Just as Missouri had after //Missouri ex rel. Gaines// was decided a decade earlier, Oklahoma opted to open a new law school for African Americans instead of admitting the plaintiff to the University's law school. This resolution was challenged in //Fisher v. Hurst//, 333 U.S. 147 (1948), but the plaintiff was denied any further relief.