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In June , two residents of Virginia, Mildred Jeter, a black woman, and Richard Loving, a white man, were married in the District of Columbia. Shortly afterwards they returned to Virginia and . Find A Gift · English · Collectible · Registry. SUMMARY: The issue presented in the instant case concerned the validity of the Virginia antimiscegenation statutes, the central features of which are the absolute prohibition of a . LOVING V. VIRGINIA () View the case on the National Constitution Center’s site here. SUMMARY 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. 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 The lawyers argued that the Lovings’ rights were violated in accordance with the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Nov 12, · Case Summary of Loving v. Virginia: The State of Virginia had a law forbidding interracial marriages. An interracial couple from Virginia, the Lovings, married in Washington D.C. to avoid the Virginia law, but later settled in Virginia. When caught living together in Virginia, the couple was convicted of violating the anti-miscegenation law.