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206 So. 2d 210

Docket No. 36790.

Van Hook v. Blanton

James VAN HOOK and Liane Peters, Relators, v. W.F. BLANTON, County Judge, Dade County, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Florida

Decided January 24, 1968.

Supreme Court of Florida · decided 1968-01-24

Relies on Loving v. Commonwealth of Virginia

Decided 1968-01-24

¶1Matthews & Braynon, Miami, Jack Greenberg, James M. Nabrit, III, Leroy D. Clark and James Finney, New York City, for relators.

¶2Earl Faircloth, Atty. Gen., and T.T. Turnbull, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.

¶3PER CURIAM.

¶4After return to the alternative writ, oral argument, and due consideration and study of this cause, it is ordered that peremptory writ as petitioned for herein issue, it appearing that state statutes prohibiting interracial marriages and prescribing penalties for their violation, such as Sections 741.11 through 741.16, Florida Statutes, F.S.A. have been held invalid by the Supreme Court of the United States. See Loving v. Commonwealth of Virginia, 388 U.S. 1, 87 S.Ct. 1817, 18 L.Ed.2d 1010 (1967).

¶5It is so ordered.

¶6ROBERTS, DREW, THORNAL, ERVIN and ADAMS, JJ., concur.

¶7CALDWELL, C.J., and THOMAS, J., dissent.

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