 Carliner's first major case was "Naim v. Naim".A Chinese sailor named Hay Say Naim had married a white Virginian woman, Ruby Naim, and sought to obtain permanent residency through his marriage.When Ruby sought to annul the marriage on the grounds that Virginia law forbade the interracial marriage to begin with, Carliner tried to take the case all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States.