[SEL] Amish restraint laws?

EnginePaul at aol.com EnginePaul at aol.com
Tue Jun 7 22:39:51 PDT 2005


I remembered this from long ago and it seems similar to the  Amish law:
 
Yick Wo v. Hopkins 
118 U.S. 356 (1886) 
Yick Wo was a Chinese immigrant who ran a small San Francisco laundry that  
was shut down by police for being in violation of a city ordinance against  
operating commercial enterprises out of wooden buildings. It was widely  
understood that the ordinance targeted Chinese businesses, since such businesses  made 
predominant use of wooden construction (which was not itself prohibited).  In 
its ruling, the Court sanctioned local authorities for arbitrary application  
of the law and upheld the right of citizens and noncitizens alike to appeal 
to  the Fourteenth Amendment for protection against discrimination.Yick Wo v. 
Hopkins 
118 U.S. 356 (1886)  
Yick Wo has been cited in well over 150 Supreme Court cases since it was  
decided.



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