The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2020
SCOTUSBlog
DECEMBER 31, 2020
Cohen – who first met the Lovings when he was just 29 – filed a lawsuit on their behalf, challenging the Virginia law and similar state statutes as violating the 14th Amendment. He and his co-counsel, Philip Hirschkop, took the case to the Supreme Court. Virginia , the court did find the statute unconstitutional.
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