In June 1967, the Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in the Lovings' favor that overturned their convictions and struck down Virginia's Racial Integrity Act.

Nov 18, 2025 · 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 …

The Court also held that the Virginia law violated the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. "Under our Constitution," wrote Chief Justice Earl Warren, "the freedom to marry, …

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 …

Mildred and Richard Loving, an interracial couple, married in D.C. but moved to Virginia where interracial marriage was banned. They sued for violation of the Equal Protection Clause.

Nov 17, 2017 · 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 …

Feb 18, 2025 · It was this law that the U.S. Supreme Court ruling said denied Virginians’ “fundamental freedom” to marry. Loving v. Virginia is a landmark case, both in the history of …

Loving v. 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 …

Two young lawyers from the ACLU, Bernard Cohen and Philip Hirschkop, took the case and asked a state trial court to vacate the Lovings’ conviction in 1963. The lawyers argued that the …

On June 12, 1967, the Supreme Court ruled in unanimously in favor of the Lovings, ending decades of Virginia’s discriminatory laws and overturning bans on interracial marriage across …