Legal Opinion
Lipscomb v. Columbus Municipal Separate School District
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided October 5, 2001No. 00-60245PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:
This case requires us to examine a collision between the Contract Clause of the United States Constitution and Mississippi’s effort to escape rent and renewal terms of leases of sixteenth section land in Columbus, Mississippi dating back to the early nineteenth century. The Secretary of State of Mississippi and the State maintain that the rental and renewal terms are invalid because their perpetuation of rents that are now nominal violate a provision of the 1890 Mississippi Constitution forbidding the donation of public property to private parties.…
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