| Venue: | SCOTUS |
| Facts: | White parents divorce, and the mom gets custody of the daughter. She begins cohabitating with a black man (whom she later marries), and custody is modified. |
| Posture: | Contesting that custody decision. |
| Issue: | Is a state court decision divesting a natural mother of the custody of her child because of her marriage to a person of a different race constitutional? |
| Holding: | No. |
| Rule: | Public officials sworn to uphold the constitution may not avoid a constitutional duty by bowing to the hypothetical effects of private racial prejudice that they assume to be both widely and deeply held. |
| Reasoning: | We've seen racial prejudice invoked to justify racial classification before. We're not having any of it. Strict scrutiny. |
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