Lion of the Bar Recalls 1967 Interracial Marriage Case Depicted in ‘Loving’

Schulte Roth & Zabel founding partner Bill Zabel has scored many victories over the course of his 55-year legal career. But he’s most proud of one case he helped win as a young associate: he wrote the brief that led the U.S. Supreme Court in 1967 to invalidate laws prohibiting interracial marriage.

The case,Loving v. Virginia, is the subject of “Loving,” a feature-length historical drama directed by Jeff Nichols and released in the U.S. on Nov. 4. The film is above all a portrait of Richard Perry Loving and Mildred Loving (née Jeter), the married couple whose appeal paved ...