Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada

Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued November 9, 1938 Decided December 12, 1938
Full case name	State of Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada, Registrar of the University of Missouri, et al.
Citations	305 U.S. 337 (more) 59 S. Ct. 232; 83 L. Ed. 208; 1938 U.S. LEXIS 440
Case history
Prior	The Circuit Court denied the writ. The Missouri Supreme Court upheld the judgment against Gaines, 113 S.W.2d 783 (Mo. 1937); cert. granted, 305 U.S. 580 (1938).
Subsequent	Rehearing denied, 305 U.S. 676 (1939); remanded, 131 S.W.2d 217 (Mo. 1939).
Holding
States that provide only one educational institution must allow blacks and whites to attend if there is no separate school for blacks.
Court membership
Chief Justice Charles E. Hughes Associate Justices James C. McReynolds · Louis Brandeis Pierce Butler · Harlan F. Stone Owen Roberts · Hugo Black Stanley F. Reed
Case opinions
Majority	Hughes, joined by Brandeis, Stone, Roberts, Black, Reed
Dissent	McReynolds, joined by Butler
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. XIV

Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada, 305 U.S. 337 (1938), was a United States Supreme Court decision holding that states which provided a school to white students had to provide in-state education to Black students as well. States could satisfy this requirement by allowing Black and white students to attend the same school or creating a second school for Black students.^[1]