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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.
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.
Hace 5 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.
17 de nov. de 2017 · Loving v. Virginia was a landmark decision that struck down state laws banning interracial marriage in the U.S. The case involved Richard and Mildred Loving, a white man and Black woman who were arrested and convicted for violating Virginia's anti-miscegenation law in 1958. The Supreme Court ruled that their rights to due process and equal protection under the 14th Amendment were violated by the law and overturned it in 1967.
The landmark case of Loving v. Virginia (1967) struck down state laws banning marriage between individuals of different races, based on the Fourteenth Amendment. Read the syllabus, opinions, and facts of the case that challenged racial discrimination and affirmed the right to love.
El 12 de junio de 1967, el Tribunal Supremo de los Estados Unidos dictaminaba que Richard y Mildred Loving tenían todo el derecho a ser marido y mujer, a pesar de que él era blanco y ella negra; y que el estado de Virginia no podía encarcelarles por ello. La sentencia supuso el fin de las leyes que declaraban ilegales los matrimonios mixtos ...
A Supreme Court case that ruled that the Virginia law prohibiting interracial marriages violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The Court held that the law treated people differently based on race and infringed the fundamental right to marry. The case marked an expansion of the Court's interpretation of the Equal Protection Clause and the characteristics it protects.
