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On 12 December 1938, the Supreme Court ruled (7–2) that states could not enforce segregation in schools unless each race enjoyed equal facilities; it ordered Mo, to enroll a black student at the state university's law school to remedy the lack of separate legal training for his race, and denied that the state's offer to pay the student's expenses at an out-of-state law program justified his exclusion from a segregated law school. On 5 June 1950, the Court clarified this issue further in Sweatt v. Painter , when it ruled unanimously that in states where separate law schools existed for whites and blacks, blacks could not be restricted to the segregated institution if its facilities were inferior to those provided for whites. ... log in or subscribe to read full text