Loving v. Virginia
A case in which the Court held that the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits governments from discriminating against individuals on the basis of race.
Loving v. Virginia - Wikipedia
Loving v. Virginia ... Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967), was a landmark civil rights decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that ruled that laws banning ...
Loving v. Virginia | 388 U.S. 1 (1967)
Loving v. Virginia: A unanimous Court struck down state laws banning marriage between individuals of different races, holding that these anti-miscegenation ...
Loving v. Virginia: 1967 & Supreme Court Case | HISTORY
Loving v. Virginia was a 1967 Supreme Court case in which the court's ruling struck down state laws banning interracial marriage throughout ...
Loving v. Virginia (1967) - The National Constitution Center
The Court held that the Virginia law violated the Fourteenth Amendment because of the law's clear purpose to create a race-based restriction. The Court reasoned ...
Loving | American Civil Liberties Union
The couple was referred to the ACLU, which represented them in the landmark Supreme Court case, Loving v. Virginia (1967). The Court ruled that state bans on ...
Loving v. Virginia | Summary, Date, Ruling, Facts, & Significance
Loving v. Virginia, legal case, decided on June 12, 1967, in which the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously (9–0) struck down state ...
The Fight for the Right to Marry: The Loving v. Virginia Case
In 1967, the Supreme Court handed down a landmark decision on civil rights on that very topic: the famous Loving v. Virginia case.
Listen: 6 Moments From The Loving V. Virginia Supreme Court Case
On June 12, 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court justices ruled in the Lovings' favor. The unanimous decision upheld that distinctions drawn based on ...
Richard Perry LOVING et ux., Appellants, v. COMMONWEALTH OF ...
This case presents a constitutional question never addressed by this Court: whether a statutory scheme adopted by the State of Virginia to prevent marriages
Loving v. Virginia - UMKC School of Law
A statutory scheme adopted by the State of Virginia to prevent marriages between persons solely on the basis of racial classifications violates the Equal ...
Loving v. Virginia (1967) - Bill of Rights Institute
The Court unanimously held that prohibiting and punishing marriage based on racial qualifications violated the Equal Protection and Due Process clauses of the ...
Loving v. Virginia - Oregon.gov
Loving v. Virginia was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that struck down all state laws ban- ning interracial marriage as violations of the ...
Loving v. Virginia | Wex | US Law | LII / Legal Information Institute
Primary tabs. Loving v. Virginia is the 1967 U.S. Supreme Court decision that found that state laws prohibiting interracial marriage violated the Equal ...
Looking back on Loving v. Virginia 52 years later
The Caroline County judge, who in 1959 found them guilty of violating the Virginia Racial Integrity Act, wrote: “Almighty God created the races ...
Loving v. Virginia Case Summary - Supreme Court - FindLaw
Loving v. Virginia Case Summary. In Loving v. Virginia, a unanimous Supreme Court held in 1967 that laws prohibiting interracial marriage violated both the ...
The Lovings | Caroline County VA
The Loving v. Virginia case was then brought to the US Supreme Court on April 10, 1967. The US Supreme Court voted unanimously in favor of Lovings on June ...
In Loving v. Virginia, the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals upholds the state's antimiscegenation laws. The Court also sets aside the original conviction of ...
Excerpts from a Transcript of Oral Arguments in Loving v. Virginia ...
In these excerpts from a transcript of oral arguments in Loving v. Virginia, presented to the US Supreme Court on April 10, 1967, Bernard S. Cohen and Philip J ...
Loving v. Virginia - their love changed the world! A world-premiere production commissioned by Virginia Opera and Richmond Symphony.