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PORTERFIELD v. WEBB

No. 28.

263 U.S. 225 (1923)

44 S.Ct. 21

68 L.Ed. 278

PORTERFIELD ET AL. v. WEBB, ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 12, 1923.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Louis Marshall for appellants.

Mr. U.S. Webb, Attorney General of the State of California, with whom Mr. Frank English, Deputy Attorney General, Mr. Thomas Lee Woolwine and Mr. Tracy C. Becker were on the brief, for appellees.

MR. JUSTICE BUTLER delivered the opinion of the Court.

Appellants brought this suit to enjoin the above named Attorney General and District Attorney from enforcing the California Alien Land Law, submitted by the initiative and approved by the electors, November 2, 1920. [Stats. 1921, p. lxxxiii.]

Appellants are residents of California. Porterfield is a citizen of the United States and of California. Mizuno was born...

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