In Louisiana, 1974, Joan Feenstra's husband was incarcerated for molesting their young daughter.
Feenstra then dropped the charges, legally separated from her husband, and returned to court to challenge the constitutionality of the law.
The Supreme Court, in Kirchberg v. Feenstra, invalidated the mortgage, concluding that the statute was, in fact, unconstitutional.
[1] In 2015, during oral arguments in the same-sex marriage case Obergefell v. Hodges U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg used the example of the Supreme Court's striking down of Louisiana's Head and Master rule to illustrate how "traditional" concepts of marriage had been revised over time.
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