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Loving Vs Virginia Case Study
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
Issue: Interracial marriage
Bottom Line: You can’t marry anyone outside your own race

Backround
Mildred Jeter, an African-American woman, and Richard Loving, a white man, went to Washington, D.C, to get married and avoid Virginia’s interracial marriage ban. When they returned to Virginia not long after, the Lovings were arrested under the charges of violating Virginia’s interracial marriage ban.

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The Lovings pleaded guilty, and were sentenced to one year in jail. However, the trial judge agreed to suspend their sentence for 25 year if they leave Virginia and don’t come back together for 25 years. So the Lovings left the state. Later, the Lovings appealed to the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals that their
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