Harold T. Epps, Robert Davis Glass, Floyd B. McKissick, Soloman Revis, Harvey Beech, Walter Nevin, Perry V. Giliard, James Lassiter, and J. Kenneth Lee applied for admission to the University of North Carolina (UNC) Law School. They met the school’s requirements but were refused because they were Black. They filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina. By the time the case was finally brought to trial, Epps had already graduated from the North Carolina College at Durham School of Law (NCC), a segregated law school. He withdrew from the lawsuit. Glass, Beech, Nevin, and Giliard also withdrew from the case. The remaining plaintiffs were McKissick, Revis, Lassiter, and Lee. These men had been admitted to the segregated law school, but did not want to go there because they felt there were better facilities and educational opportunities available at UNC. The court found that both schools would sufficiently train the students to pass the North Carolina Board of Bar Exam and to practice law. The court also stated no evidence had been presented to show that a Black lawyer who had attended UNC would “enjoy a higher standing” with judges and juries compared with a lawyer who had attended NCC. The students, however, claimed there could be no equality of opportunity if segregation existed. The court ruled that the state had provided a separate but equal legal education for its Black citizens and was therefore not required to admit them to UNC.