# Sipuel v. Board of Regents of University of Oklahoma

> Supreme Court of Oklahoma · January 17, 1948 · 199 Okla. 586

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9940192

## Case

- **Full name:** SIPUEL v. BOARD OF REGENTS OF UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Oklahoma
- **Decided:** January 17, 1948
- **Citations:** 199 Okla. 586; 190 P.2d 437; 1948 OK 17; 1948 Okla. LEXIS 298
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Opinion of the court
- **Judges:** Hurst, Davison, Riley, Bayless, Welch, Gibson, Arnold, Luttrell
- **Cited by:** 3 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

On April 29, 1947, this court affirmed the district court of Cleveland county, Oklahoma, denying a writ of mandamus sought by Ada Lois Sipuel, a negro, in a proceeding by which she sought to compel her enrollment and admission as a student in the law school of the University of Oklahoma.
The Supreme Court of the United States reversed the judgment of this court by its opinion which follows:
"In the Supreme Court of the United States, Monday, January 12, 1948
"No. 369 — October Term, 1947
"Ada Lois Sipuel, Petitioner, v. "Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma, et al., Respondents.
On Writ of Certiorari to the Supreme Court of the State of Oklahoma

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