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Loving v. Virginia
Loving v. Virginia is a Supreme Court case that found the Virginia statute prohibiting interracial marriages to be unconstitutional.
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Caroline County Circuit Court (January 6, 1959)
The Colonial court was the form of justice system in colonial Virginia.
What was the effect of the Supreme Court's decision in Loving v. Virginia
Loving v. Virginia, 388 US 1 (1967)The Lovings were an interracial married couple (Mildred and Richard Perry Loving) who were charged for cohabitating in the state of Virginia, a state that outlawed interracial marriage (They were married in DC before returning to Virginia). Their marriage license was actually used against them in the case that went all the way to the US Supreme Court.Then in 1967, 8 years after their arrest, the Court overturned the law.
No. The Supreme Court ruled on June 12, 1967, in Loving v. Virginia, that laws against interracial marriage were unconstitutional.Please see the related links section below for more information about this Supreme Court decision.
The Supreme Court of Virginia
In the case of Loving v. Virginia, the concurring opinion was written by Justice Potter Stewart. He agreed with the majority's ruling that Virginia's anti-miscegenation law was unconstitutional but wrote a separate concurrence to emphasize that the freedom to marry was a fundamental right protected by the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause. He argued that the Constitution prohibits interracial marriage restrictions just as it forbids measures that discriminate based on race.
Loving v. Virginia was the 1967 U.S. Supreme Court case that ruled that state laws prohibiting interracial marriage were unconstitutional.