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Legal Citation: 239 U.S. 33 (1915)

Appellants
William Truax, Sr., Wiley E. Jones, W. G. Gilmore

Appellee
Mike Raich

Appellants' Claim
That a U.S. district court erred in preventing enforcement of Arizona's Anti-Alien Act.

Chief Lawyers for Appellants
Wiley E. Jones, Leslie C. Hardy, George W. Harben

Chief Lawyers for Appellee
Alexander Britton, Evans Browne, Francis W. Clements

Justices for the Court
Louis D. Brandeis, William Rufus Day, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Charles Evans Hughes (writing for the Court), Joseph McKenna, Mahlon Pitney, Willis Van Devanter, Edward Douglass White

Justices Dissenting
James Clark McReynolds

Place
Washington, D.C.

Date of Decision
1 November 1915

Decision
Against the appellants, affirming the district court's injunction...