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Legal Citation: 118 U.S. 356 (1886)

Petitioner
Yick Wo

Respondent
Peter Hopkins, San Francisco Sheriff

Petitioner's Claim
That San Francisco was enforcing an ordinance in an unlawfully discriminatory manner against the defendant and other Chinese persons.

Chief Lawyers for Petitioner
Hall McAllister, D. L. Smoot, L. H. Van Schaick

Chief Lawyers for Respondent
Alfred Clarke, H. G. Sieberst

Justices for the Court
Samuel Blatchford, Joseph P. Bradley, Stephen Johnson Field, Horace Gray, John Marshall Harlan I, Stanley Matthews (writing for the Court), Samuel Freeman Miller, Morrison Remick Waite, William Burnham Woods

Justices Dissenting
None

Place
Washington, D.C.

Date of Decision
10 May 1886

Decision
Yick Wo's conviction for violating the ordinance was...