Any judgment will contain a few "recitals." Recitals are statements of procedural matters, and sometimes contain findings by the court that are required for the judgment to be entered.
The divorce decree between Faye's parents contained a recital that both the husband and wife were of the Caucasian race. When I first read it, I did a straight double take. Then I remembered that back when Faye's parents were married, the law in the state of Virginia prohibited marriage between a black person and a white person. This was referred to as the crime of miscegenation.
The law was challenged, and ultimately the U.S. Supreme Court struck it down as unconstitutional in 1967.
There's this weird thing that happens in cases: many times, case names strangely reflect the underlying facts. The case in which the Supreme Court struck down the Virginia marriage law is Loving v. Virginia, which is kind of awesome, isn't it?
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