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Hace 3 días · 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.
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.
17 de nov. de 2017 · Loving v. Virginia was a 1967 Supreme Court case in which the court’s ruling struck down state laws banning interracial marriage throughout the United States.
Oyez.org is a multimedia judicial archive of the Supreme Court of the United States. In this webpage, you can find the details of the landmark case Loving v. Virginia, which struck down the laws banning interracial marriage in 1967. Learn about the background, the arguments, the opinions, and the impact of this historic decision.
El caso Loving contra Virginia, U.S. 1 (1967), fue un caso judicial sobre derechos civiles, llevado ante la Corte Suprema de los Estados Unidos, que en la sentencia del mismo sentó jurisprudencia invalidando las leyes que prohibían el matrimonio interracial en los Estados Unidos.
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.
Citation388 U.S. 1, 87 S. Ct. 1817, 18 L. Ed. 2d 1010, 1967 U.S. 1082. Brief Fact Summary. The state of Virginia enacted laws making it a felony for a white person to intermarry with a black person or the reverse. The constitutionality of the statutes was called into question. Synopsis of Rule of Law.
