Yu Cong Eng v. Trinidad

Supreme Court of the United States

Argued April 12–13, 1926
Decided June 7, 1926

Full case name

Yu Cong Eng, et al. v. Trinidad, Collector, et al.

Citations

271 U.S. 500 (more)

46 S. Ct. 619; 70 L. Ed. 1059; 1926 U.S. LEXIS 642

Prior history

Supreme Court of the Philippines

Holding

The Chinese Bookkeeping Act violated the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Philippine Autonomy Act.

Court membership

Chief Justice William H. Taft

Associate Justices Oliver W. Holmes, Jr. · Willis Van Devanter James C. McReynolds · Louis Brandeis George Sutherland · Pierce Butler Edward T. Sanford · Harlan F. Stone

Case opinions

Majority

Taft, joined by unanimous

Laws applied

Philippine Autonomy Act

Yu Cong Eng v. Trinidad, 271 U.S. 500 (1926), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that a law passed by the US colonial government of the Philippines in 1921, Act No. 2972 of the Philippine Legislature, known as the "Chinese Bookkeeping Act," was unconstitutional. It prevented business records from being kept in the Chinese language.

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