Yick Wo v. Hopkins (1886) Overview | LSData Case Brief Video Summary
The case is about two Chinese laundry business owners, Yick Wo and Wo Lee, who were arrested and imprisoned in San Francisco for violating a city ordinance that required laundry businesses to operate in brick buildings. The ordinance was selectively enforced against non-white business owners, while permitting white business owners to operate in wooden buildings. The most relevant facts to the court's analysis are the discriminatory nature of the ordinance, the unequal treatment of non-white business owners, and the violation of the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause.
Yick Wo v. Hopkins (1886)
Supreme Court of the United States
118 U.S. 356, 30 L. Ed. 220, 6 S. Ct. 1064, SCDB 1885-269, 1886 U.S. LEXIS 1938
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