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The Devil Is In The Details: The Supreme Court Erodes The Fourth Amendment In Applying Reasonable Suspicion In Navarette V. California, George M. Dery Iii, Kevin Meehan
The Devil Is In The Details: The Supreme Court Erodes The Fourth Amendment In Applying Reasonable Suspicion In Navarette V. California, George M. Dery Iii, Kevin Meehan
Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice
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Same-Sex Marriage And Loving V. Virginia: Analogy Or Disanalogy?, Ronald Turner
Same-Sex Marriage And Loving V. Virginia: Analogy Or Disanalogy?, Ronald Turner
Washington and Lee Law Review Online
In its 1967 decision in Loving v. Virginia, the United States Supreme Court struck down Virginia antimiscegenation laws prohibiting and criminalizing interracial marriages, holding that the challenged laws violated the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. In recent federal appeals court decisions, Loving has been invoked as an authoritative analogy supporting plaintiffs’ claims that same-sex marriage bans violate the Constitution. This Essay considers the posited Loving analogy and the contentions (1) that different-race marriage and same-sex marriage prohibitions present similar, albeit not identical, instances of unconstitutional state limitations on an …