Frick v. Webb
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL PROM THE DISTRICT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES ' FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA.' " Appeal from an order of the District Court refusing an .interlocutory injunction in a suit to restrain officials of the State of California from enforcing the California Alien Land Law.
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APPEAL PROM THE DISTRICT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES ' FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA.' " Appeal from an order of the District Court refusing an .interlocutory injunction in a suit to restrain officials of the State of California from enforcing the California Alien Land Law. I. Assuming that the ownership of shares of stock in a California corporation having the title to agricultural land constitutes an interest in such land, the California Alien Land Law, which forbids aliens ineligible to citizenship under the laws of the United States to acquire such shares, although the right to…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Butleb
This is a suit brought by the appellants to enjoin the above-named Attorney General and District Attorney from enforcing the California Alien Land Law, 1 submitted by the initiative and approved by the electors, November 2, 1920, on the grounds «that it is in conflict with the due process and equal protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment, and. with the treaty between the United States and Japan.
Appellants are residents of California. Frick is a citizen of the United States and of California. Satow was born in Japan' of Japanese parents and is a subject of the Emperor of Japan. Frick is…
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