Show SUPREME COURT I Three Decisions The U. U US U.S. S. S supreme court has baa handed down three d decisions Inthe in inthe Inthe the current civil rights right controversy which will have reaching far tion The court held that segregation of at Negroes in railroad dining cars violates the Interstate Commerce Act that Negro students student must mut be admitted to the University of Texas law school because the state tate does not afford them facUlties facilities ties equal to those for whites and that Oklahoma had been discriminating against Negro students at atIta its Ita state tate University law Jaw school chool by segregating them in classrooms classroom and elsewhere on the campus The court however did not go into the cases as deeply as 81 the justice department desired For Instance the justice department department depart depart- ment argued there can be no such thing as 81 separate but equal fa facilities Ia- Ia dUties dUties' and treatment It contended contend contend- ed the mere tact fact a Negro has to use a separate public facility prevents prevents pre pre- vents lents him from tram having an equal facility It is just as sensible the department argued to say ay that a athing athing athing thing can be black but white as asto asto asto to insist it can be separate and equal Observers point out that had the court gone into the matter as deeply as the department asked and ruled in its favor there would have been practically nothing left of at segregation laws Some students of at government believe believe be be- lieve such uch a ruling would have been a great deal more reach far ing than the passage passage by Congress of at the much debated F. F E. E P. P PC C. C The court however adhered to its long established practice of not i determining constitutional issues if It other grounds ground for tor decisions exist I |