OYAMA v. CALIFORNIA

No. 44.

332 U.S. 633 (1948)

OYAMA ET AL. v. CALIFORNIA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 19, 1948.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A.L. Wirin and Dean G. Acheson argued the cause for petitioners. With Mr. Wirin on the brief were Charles A. Horsky, James C. Purcell, Guy C. Calden, Saburo Kido and Fred Okrand.

Everett W. Mattoon, Deputy Attorney General of California, and Duane J. Carnes argued the cause for respondent. With them on the brief was Fred N. Howser, Attorney General.

Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal were filed by James C. Purcell for the Civil Rights Defense Union of Northern California; and Edwin Borchard, Edward J. Ennis, Osmond K. Fraenkel, Walter Gellhorn, Arthur Garfield Hays, Harold Evans and Benjamin Kizer for the American Civil Liberties Union.


MR. CHIEF JUSTICE VINSON delivered the opinion of the Court.

Petitioners challenge the constitutionality of California's Alien Land Law1 as it has been applied in this case to effect an escheat of two small parcels of agricultural land.2 One of the petitioners is Fred Oyama, a minor American citizen in whose name title was taken. The other is his father and guardian, Kajiro Oyama, a Japanese citizen not eligible...

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