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DeFUNIS v. ODEGAARD, 416 U.S. 312

DeFUNIS v. ODEGAARD, 416 U.S. 312

416 U.S. 312 | 1974-04-23

U.S. Supreme Court

DeFUNIS v. ODEGAARD, 416 U.S. 312 (1974)

416 U.S. 312

DeFUNIS ET AL. v. ODEGAARD ET AL. 

CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF WASHINGTON. 

No. 73-235. 

Argued February 26, 1974. 
Decided April 23, 1974. 

After being denied admission to a state-operated law school, petitioner brought this suit on behalf of himself alone for injunctive relief, claiming that the school's admissions policy racially discriminated against him in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The trial court agreed and ordered the school to admit him in the fall of 1971. The Washington Supreme Court...