Legal Opinion
Cooper v. Aaron
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided October 6, 1958No. 1PublishedCited by 998 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
As this case reaches us it raises questions of the highest importance to the maintenance of our federal system of government. It necessarily involves 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. Specifically it involves actions by the Governor and Legislature of Arkansas upon the premise that they are not bound by our holding in Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U. S. 483. That holding was that the Fourteenth Amendment forbids States…
2Cases cited21 opinions
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- Brown v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1955
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