Cooper v. Aaron
1958 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that states must enforce its rulings regardless of agreement / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Cooper v. Aaron, 358 U.S. 1 (1958), was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States that denied the school board of Little Rock, Arkansas the right to delay racial desegregation for 30 months.[1] On September 12, 1958, the Warren Court delivered a decision that held that the states are bound by the Court's decisions and must enforce them even if the states disagree with them, asserting the judicial supremacy established in Marbury v. Madison (1803).[2] The decision in this case upheld the rulings in Brown v. Board of Education and Brown II that had held that the doctrine of separate but equal was unconstitutional.[3]
Quick Facts Cooper v. Aaron, Argued September 11, 1958 Decided September 12, 1958 ...
Cooper v. Aaron | |
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Argued September 11, 1958 Decided September 12, 1958 | |
Full case name | William G. Cooper, et al., Members of the Board of Directors of the Little Rock, Arkansas, Independent School District, and Virgial T. Blossom, Superintendent of Schools v. John Aaron, et al. |
Citations | 358 U.S. 1 (more) 78 S. Ct. 1401; 3 L. Ed. 2d 5; 1958 U.S. LEXIS 657; 79 Ohio L. Abs. 452 |
Case history | |
Prior | Suspension of order granted, 163 F. Supp. 13 (E.D. Ark 1958); reversed, 257 F.2d 33 (8th Cir. 1958); cert. granted, 358 U.S. 29 (1958). |
Subsequent | Opinion announced September 29, 1958 |
Holding | |
This Court cannot countenance a claim by the Governor and Legislature of a State that there is no duty on state officials to obey federal court orders resting on this Court's considered interpretation of the United States Constitution in Brown v. Board of Education (1954). | |
Court membership | |
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Case opinions | |
Majority | Warren, Black, Frankfurter, Douglas, Burton, Clark, Harlan, Brennan, Whittaker |
Concurrence | Frankfurter |
Laws applied | |
U.S. Const. amend. XIV; Supremacy Clause |
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