Murray v. Pearson
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Murray v. Pearson was a Maryland Court of Appeals decision reached on November 5, 1935.
The ruling stemmed from a lawsuit brought by Thurgood Marshall against the University of Maryland Law School, arguing that the organization's policy of racial segregation was unconstitutional. The Baltimore City Circuit Court (trial court) agreed with Marshall's reasoning, and ordered the university immediately integrated.
The ruling was appealed to Maryland's highest court, the Court of Appeals, which affirmed the lower courts' rulings in Marshall's favor. The decision was never taken to the U.S. Supreme Court, and as such the ruling was not binding outside of Maryland until 1954, when the results of Brown v. Board of Education mandated desegregation across the whole of the United States.
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