MO HOCK KE LOK PO v. STAINBACK

Civ. A. No. 765.

74 F.Supp. 852 (1947)

MO HOCK KE LOK PO et al. v. STAINBACK et al.

District Court, Hawaii.

October 22, 1947.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wai Yuen Char, of Honolulu, T. H., and A. L. Wirin, of Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiffs.

Rhoda V. Lewis, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Thomas W. Flynn, Deputy Atty. Gen., for defendants.

J. Russell Cades and Edward Z. Buck, both of Honolulu, T. H., amici curiae, on question of jurisdiction.

Before DENMAN, Circuit Judge, and McCORMICK and METZGER, District Judges.


DENMAN, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs seek a judgment declaring unconstitutional Act 104 of the Hawaiian Legislature enacted on May 1, 1943, entitled "An Act Regulating the Teaching of Foreign Languages to Children," now embodied in Hawaiian Rev. Law, Chapter 31. They also seek to enjoin the defendants Superintendent of Public Instruction, the Governor and the Attorney General from their enforcement of that Act.

Two of the plaintiffs are Wah Chan Thom, a Hawaiian...

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