Price Daniel

==Texas Attorney General==

Price returned to Texas after his military service and won the seat of [[Texas Attorney General]].<ref name="Price Daniel Opinions 1952-1952">{{cite web|title=Price Daniel Opinions 1952-1952|url=http://www.oag.state.tx.us/opin/opinions/op40daniel/indexpdf.shtml|publisher=Attorney General of Texas|access-date=2 June 2010|archive-date=25 July 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100725213808/http://www.oag.state.tx.us/opin/opinions/op40daniel/indexpdf.shtml|url-status=dead}}</ref>

As Texas State Attorney General, he argued the 1946 submerged lands ownership lawsuit ''United States v. California, 332 U.S. 19''<ref name="United States v. California, 332 U.S. 19 (1947)"/> before the [[Supreme Court of the United States]] in 1947, on behalf of the coastal states. The Supreme Court decided against California on June 23, 1947.

Daniel defended the [[University of Texas at Austin|University of Texas]] law school in the 1950 ''[[Sweatt v. Painter]]''<ref name="Sweatt v Painter 1950">{{cite web|title=Sweatt v Painter 1950|url=http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=339&invol=629|publisher=Fine Law|access-date=1 June 2010}}</ref> [[Desegregation in the United States|desegregation]] case. Herman Marion Sweatt, a black student, was denied admission to the University of Texas Law School in February 1946. Sweatt had met all the requirements, except that Texas schools were segregated by law. The [[Supreme Court of the United States]] ruled in June, 1950, Sweatt must be allowed admission.