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Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967), was a landmark civil rights decision of the U.S. Supreme Court which ruled that laws banning interracial marriage violate the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
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Apr 11, 2024 · Loving v. Virginia, legal case, decided on June 12, 1967, in which the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously (9–0) struck down state antimiscegenation statutes in Virginia as unconstitutional under the equal protection and due process clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment. Learn more about the case.
Nov 17, 2017 · Loving v. Virginia was a Supreme Court case that struck down state laws banning interracial marriage in the United States. The plaintiffs in the case were Richard and Mildred Loving, a white...
Loving v. Virginia | Oyez. Loving v. Virginia. Media. Oral Argument - April 10, 1967. Opinions. Syllabus. View Case. Appellant. Loving et ux. Appellee. Virginia. Location. Virginia General Assembly. Docket no. 395. Decided by. Warren Court. Lower court. Supreme Court of Virginia. Citation. 388 US 1 (1967) Argued. Apr 10, 1967. Decided. Jun 12, 1967
Loving v. Virginia: A unanimous Court struck down state laws banning marriage between individuals of different races, holding that these anti-miscegenation statutes violated both the Due Process and the Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Here, a white man who married a Black woman was committing a crime because the woman he chose to marry was Black. This holding marked an expansion of the Court’s interpretation of the Equal Protection Clause and the characteristics it protects. Read the Full Opinion.
Virginia is the 1967 U.S. Supreme Court decision that found that state laws prohibiting interracial marriage violated the Equal Protection Clause and Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Richard Loving, a white man, legally married Mildred Jeter, an African American woman in the District of Columbia.
