Yick Wo

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Yick Wo was a Chinese immigrant in San Francisco whose challenge to discriminatory enforcement of a city ordinance led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in Yick Wo v. Hopkins, establishing that laws applied with unequal impact violate the Equal Protection Clause.


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