Document Type
Brief
Case Name
Richard Perry Loving v. Commonwealth of Virginia
Publication Date
2-16-1967
Abstract
No. 395
Richard Perry Loving v. Commonwealth of Virginia
On Appeal from the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia
From the Summary Statement of the Case
Appellants, Richard Perry Loving and Mildred Jeter Loving, were convicted on January 6, 1959, in the Circuit Court of Caroline County, Virginia, under an indictment charging that "the said Richard Perry Loving being a White person and the said Mildred Delores Jeter [Loving] being a Colored person, did unlawfully and feloniously go out of the State of Virginia, for the purpose of being married and with the intention of returning to the State of Virginia and were married out of the State of Virginia, to-wit, in the District of Columbia on June 2, 1958, and afterwards returned to and resided in the County of Caroline, State of Virginia, cohabiting as man and wife." Va. Code, see. 20-58 (1950).
Recommended Citation
Lewers, William M. C.S.C and Ball, William B., "Brief Amicus Curiae, Urging Reversal, on Behalf of - John J. Russell, Bishop of Richmond; Lawrence Cardinal Shehan, Archbishop of Baltimore; Paul A. Hallinan, Archbishop of Atlanta; Philip M. Hannan, Archbishop of New Orleans; Robert E. Lucey, Archbishop of San Antonio; Joseph B. Brunini, Apostolic Administrator of Natchez-Jackson; Lawrence M. DeFalco, Bishop of Amarillo; Joseph A. Dirick, Apostolic Administrator of Nashville; Thomas K. Gorman, Bishop of Dallas-Ft. Worth; Joseph H. Hodges, Bishop of Wheeling; John L. Morkovsky, Apostolic Administrator of Galveston-Houston; Victor J. Reed, Bishop of Oklahoma City and Tulsa; L. J. Reicher, Bishop of Austin; Thomas Tschoepe, Bishop of San Angelo; Ernest L. Unterkoefler, Bishop of Charleston; Vincent S. Waters, Bishop of Raleigh; the National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice; and the National Catholic Social Action Conference" (1967). Court Briefs. 94.
https://scholarship.law.nd.edu/sct_briefs/94
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Comments
This brief is submitted on behalf of The National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice, The National Catholic Social Action Conference, and Roman Catholic bishops. See the listing on page 2.
These bishops, as pastors of their respective dioceses, are committed to the proposition that "with regard to the fundamental rights of the person, every type of discrimination, whether social or cultural, whether based on sex, race, color, social condition, language or religion, is to be overcome and eradicated as contrary to God's intent." (Vatican Council II, Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World.)