Case: Cooper et al., Members of the Board of Directors of the Little Rock, Arkansas, Independent School District, et al. v. Aaron et al.
Abbreviation: Cooper v. Aaron
Decision Date: 1958-09-11
Docket Number: No. 1
Citation: 358 U.S. 29
Volume: 358
Reporter: United States Reports
Court: Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction: United States
Parties: Cooper et al., Members of the Board of Directors of the Little Rock, Arkansas, Independent School District, et al. v. Aaron et al.
Judges: 
Pages: 29–29

Head Matter:
No. 1.
Cooper et al., Members of the Board of Directors of the Little Rock, Arkansas, Independent School District, et al. v. Aaron et al.
Richard C. Butler, A. F. House and, by special leave of the Court, John H. Haley, pro hac vice, for petitioners. Thurgood Marshall, Wiley A. Branton, William Coleman, Jr., Jack Greenberg and Louis H. Poliak for respondents. Solicitor General Rankin, appearing at the invitation of the Court, adhéred to his brief filed in No. 1, Misc., August Special Term, 1958, urging that the relief sought by respondents should be granted. With him on this brief were Oscar H. Davis, Philip Elman and Ralph S. Spritzer.

Opinion:
On petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Motion for leave to file brief of Arlington County Chapter, Defenders of State Sovereignty of Individual Liberties, as amicus curiae, denied. Motion for leave to file brief of James M. Burke, as amicus curiae, denied. Motion for leave to file suit for declaratory judgment in re Little Rock and for other relief denied. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit granted.