Palmore v. Sidoti

How courts have described this case

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• holding that community hostility to mixed-race marriages does not excuse a policy that disadvantages mixed-race couples in disputes over child custody
• holding that court may not award child custody based in part on the race of the parent and her partner
• recognizing that in custody proceedings, “[t]he State, of course, has a duty of the highest order to protect the interests of minor children”
• holding that custody decision based on race is not justified
• awarding custody of child to father, after divorced mother entered an interracial remarriage, in order to spare child social “pressures and stresses”
• awarding custody of child to father, after divorced mother entered an interracial remarriage, in order to spare child social \pressures and stresses\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).