Farrington v. Tokushige
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Farrington v. Tokushige | ||||||||||||
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Supreme Court of the United States | ||||||||||||
Argued January 21, 1927 Decided February, 1927 |
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Holding | ||||||||||||
The Territory of Hawaii's law making schools that teach foreign languages without a permit illegal violates the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment. | ||||||||||||
Court membership | ||||||||||||
Chief Justice: William Howard Taft Associate Justices: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Willis Van Devanter, James Clark McReynolds, Louis Brandeis, George Sutherland, Pierce Butler, Edward Terry Sanford, Harlan Fiske Stone |
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Majority by: McReynolds Joined by: unanimous |
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Laws applied | ||||||||||||
Amendment V, Act 30, Special Session 1920, legislature of Hawaii |
Farrington v. Tokushige, 273 U.S. 284 (1927),[1] was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States unanimously struck down the Territory of Hawaii's law making schools that teach foreign languages without a permit illegal because it violated the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment.
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- ^ 273 U.S. 284 Full text of the opinion courtesy of Findlaw.com.
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