Yick Wo v. Hopkins
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA. APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOE THE DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA. These two cases were argued as one and depended upon precisely the same state of facts; tbe first coming here upon a writ of error to the Supreme Court of the State of California, the second on appeal from tbe Circuit Court of the United States for that district.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA. APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOE THE DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA. These two cases were argued as one and depended upon precisely the same state of facts; tbe first coming here upon a writ of error to the Supreme Court of the State of California, the second on appeal from tbe Circuit Court of the United States for that district. The plaintiff in error, Yick Wo, on August 24, 1885, petitioned tbe Supreme Court of California for a writ of habeas corpus, alleging that be was illegally deprived of his personal liberty by the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Matthews
In the case of the petitioner, brought here by writ of error to the Supreme Court of California, our jurisdiction is limited to the question, whether the plaintiff in error has been denied a right in violation of the Constitution, laws, or treaties of the United States. The question whether his imprisonment is illegal, under the constitution and laws of the State, is not open to us. And although that question might have been con sidered in the Circuit Court in the application made to it, and by this court on appeal from its order, yet judicial propriety is best consulted by accepting the…
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