Oyama v. California Decided

The Supreme Court ruled that California's Alien Land Law, as applied, violated the Fourteenth Amendment rights of Fred Oyama, a US citizen whose immigrant father had bought land in his name. The Court did not strike the law itself. (Shares Jan 19 with the 1930 Watsonville anti-Filipino riots.)

Communities

• Japanese American

Topics

• land
• citizenship

Event type

• court case