[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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