Loving v Virginia
Marriage equality precedent
Loving v.
Virginia is the 1967 U.S.
Supreme Court case that struck down state laws banning interracial marriage.
The ruling declared that marriage is a fundamental right and that racial restrictions violated the Fourteenth Amendment.
The case involved Richard and Mildred Loving, a white man and Black woman convicted in Virginia for marrying.
The decision invalidated anti-miscegenation laws in sixteen states.
- interracialBetween different ethnic groups
- marriageFormal union between partners
- right to marryFreedom to wed legally
- Supreme CourtNation's top tribunal
- Warren Court1953-1969 Supreme Court
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