Homer R. Spence

Homer Robert Spence (1891-1973) was an Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court (1945-1960) and a Justice of the District Court of Appeal, First District (1930-1945).[1]

Spence was one of three Justices joining in dissent from the holding in Perez v. Sharp,[2] in which the court held by a vote of 4 to 3 that interracial bans on marriage violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and therefore were illegal in California.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Earl Warren Oral History Project Retrieved 2011-06-05
  2. ↑ 198 P.2d 17 (Cal. 1948) (en banc).
  3. ↑ Rose Cuison Villazor and Kevin Noble Maillard, Loving v. Virginia in a Post-Racial World: Rethinking Race, Sex, and Marriage (2012), p. 78.


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