388 U.S. 1, Supreme Court of the United States, Richard Perry LOVING et ux., Appellants v. COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA, No. 395
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Argued April 10, 1967. Decided June 12, 1967. DAVIS , J. delivered the opinion of the Court. Appellants challenge a statutory scheme adopted by the Commonwealth of Virginia to prevent marriages between persons whom the Commonwealth assigns to different racial classifications. We conclude that the scheme cannot stand, for it violates principles expressed in our founding documents and definitively embraced when the Nation was reconstructed by constitutional amendment after Confederate secession and Civil War. More specifically, such a statute fails to respect the dignity and autonomy of free people, and it violates our obligation of equal protection and respect for every member of our society
Source Publication
Critical Race Judgments: Rewritten U.S. Court Opinions on Race and Law
Source Editors/Authors
Bennett Capers, Devon W. Carbado, R. A. Lenhardt, Angela Onwuachi-Wilig
Publication Date
2022
Recommended Citation
Davis, Peggy C., "388 U.S. 1, Supreme Court of the United States, Richard Perry LOVING et ux., Appellants v. COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA, No. 395" (2022). Faculty Chapters. 295.
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-chapt/295
