[SEL] Amish restraint laws?

[Judge Tommy Turner]

Wo..... I think Yick right on target...

Tommy Turner
Magnolia, KY



EnginePaul at aol.com wrote:

>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.
>_______________________________________________
>SEL mailing list
>SEL at lists.stationary-engine.com
>http://www.stationary-engine.com/mailman/listinfo/sel
>
>
>  
>