Find A Gift · English · Collectible · Registry. Coughlin's brief – NOT an answer key!! Just an example. Case citation: Loving v. Virginia, U.S. 1 (). Procedural history: Virginia trial court convicted interracial couple of violating . Warren, E. & Supreme Court Of The United States. () U.S. Reports: Loving v. Virginia, U.S. 1. [Periodical] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, .Virginia was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that struck down all state laws ban-ning interracial marriage as violations of the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. 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. 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.