Until the Courtney Love case in California, the view of those doing the tweeting was that they could make statements, however outrageous, with impunity.
In the Loving case a mixed-race married couple was charged with violating Virginia's Racial Integrity Act.
"I've always loved case studies, from Susie Orbach on, but I'm dyslexic and I got into reading myself through Asterix.
Marutani's daughter Nancy, a lawyer in Los Angeles, told me that he never talked much at home about his work, including his involvement in the Loving case.
And that is what the Court did on Friday, in Obergefell v. Hodges, a case that is, in every sense except ease of pronunciation, the modern analogue to the Loving case.
"Do you believe that the people affected by the killings in the Loving case have found closure?" Major Hasan is the only defendant in modern times to represent himself in a military capital-punishment case.
"The Loving case was forty-two yeago ago," he said, perched on the edge of his chair in the law offices of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, in Washington, D.C., where he is a partner.
But they also marvel at how sweet and easy it was for them in 1975, and how, less than a decade after the Loving case, all they felt on their wedding day was bliss, not judgment or worry or guilt.
Though the Supreme Court's 1967 decision in the Loving case struck down miscegenation laws, Southern states were sometimes slow to change their constitutions; Alabama became the last state to do so, in 2000.
Judge Richard Posner said the Loving case is a perfect example of how laws enacted for one purpose may be interpreted in a different vein.
