Cooper v. Pate

Cooper v. Pate
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 22, 1964
Full case name	Cooper v. Pate, warden
Citations	378 U.S. 546 (more) 84 S. Ct. 1733; 12 L. Ed. 2d 1030
Case history
Prior	324 F.2d 165 (7th Cir. 1963)
Holding
The judgment by the District Court, stating the lower courts were in error to dismiss the stated cause of action as the petitioner is entitled to have his case heard on its merits, was reverted.
Court membership
Chief Justice Earl Warren Associate Justices Hugo Black · William O. Douglas Tom C. Clark · John M. Harlan II William J. Brennan Jr. · Potter Stewart Byron White · Arthur Goldberg
Case opinion
Per curiam

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Cooper v. Pate

Cooper v. Pate, 378 U.S. 546 (1964), was a U.S. Supreme Court case in which the court ruled for the first time that state prison inmates have the standing to sue in federal court to address their grievances under the Civil Rights Act of 1871. This case followed Jones v. Cunningham (1963) allowing prison inmates to employ a writ of habeas corpus to challenge the legality of their sentencing and the conditions of their imprisonment.^[1]