January 26, 2001
Judge Rejects Plan for Law School in Mississippi Desegregation Plan
The federal judge overseeing Mississippi's 25-year-old desegregation case has ruled that the state has no need for a proposed third law school, which would be operated in part by Jackson State University. He also rejected a proposed pharmacy school at the historically black institution.
The law school has been a bargaining chip in the plaintiffs' $800-million settlement proposal. Mississippi's governor, Ronnie Musgrove, a Democrat, has made resolving the case
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