| Venue: | SCOTUS |
| Facts: | Sweatt was denied admission to the U of TX law school. It was a nice school. TX has opened a new law school at the TX State U for Negroes. It has some nice things going for it, but it's not in the same league, by any metric. |
| Posture: | Looks like there was a judgment for the defendants below. |
| Issue: | Is the availability of this option sufficient to discharge TX's obligations to its citizens? |
| Holding: | No. Reversed. Admit him to U of TX Law School. |
| Rule: | Substantial equality is required. |
| Reasoning: | Nobody who had a free choice about which school to attend would ever go to the new one. At the new school, 85% of the TX population is excluded, and that will include most of the lawyers, witnesses, judges, and other officials with whom graduates could expect to deal. This offends equal protection. |
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