Waugh v. Board of Trustees of Univ. of Miss.
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME' COURT OP THE STATE OP MISSISSIPPI. The facts, which involve the constitutionality under the due process and equal protection provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment of a statute of the State of Mississippi prohibiting Greek Letter fraternities and other societies in the educational institutions of the State, are stated in the opinion, The second section of said act and said order of the Board of Trustees is unreasonable and ultra vires. 22 Am. & Eng.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME' COURT OP THE STATE OP MISSISSIPPI. The facts, which involve the constitutionality under the due process and equal protection provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment of a statute of the State of Mississippi prohibiting Greek Letter fraternities and other societies in the educational institutions of the State, are stated in the opinion, The second section of said act and said order of the Board of Trustees is unreasonable and ultra vires. 22 Am. & Eng. Enc. 936; Bell’s Gap R. R. v. Pennsylvania, 134 U. S. 232; Cotting v. Goddard, 183 U. S. 79; Gulf, Col. & Santa Fe R. R. v.…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McKenna
delivered the opinion.of the court.
Plaintiff in. error, herein called complainant, by a bill in the chancery court of Lafayette County, State qf Mississippi, attacked the validity and sought to restrain the execution of an act of the State [act of Feb. 27,1912, c. 177, Miss. L. (1912), p. Í92], prohibiting Greek letter fraternities and societies in the State’s educational institutions.
Section 1 of the act designates by name certain societies and declares that they “and other secret orders, chapters, fraternities, sororities, societies and organizations of whatever name, or without a name, of…
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