 | 1993 - 360 páginas
...mind so unequal and oppressive as to amount to a practical denial by the State of [equal protection]. Though the law itself be fair on its face and impartial...still within the prohibition of the Constitution. . . . The present cases [are] within this class. It appears [that] petitioners have complied with every... | |
 | Charles J. McClain - 1994 - 528 páginas
...the orders of the President were legal, the action of General DeWitt would constitute administration "by public authority with an evil eye and an unequal hand" so as to deprive the whole evacuation program of constitutional validity.204 D. The Problem o\ Detention... | |
 | Charles McClain - 1994 - 508 páginas
...would not tolerate a state wielding unaccountable power behind the face of a blandly worded ordinance: Though the law itself be fair on its face and impartial in its appearance, yet, if it is applied and administered by public authority with an evil eye and an... | |
 | Melvin I. Urofsky - 1994 - 598 páginas
...were denied to all Chinese applicants, but not to others. Matthews ruled that a facially neutral law "administered by public authority with an evil eye and an unequal hand" violated equal protection. It is emblematic of both Matthews's time and his place in it that his most... | |
 | Abraham L. Davis, Barbara Luck Graham - 1995 - 512 páginas
...the broad and benign provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Though the law itself be fair on its face and impartial...still within the prohibition of the Constitution. This principle of interpretation has been sanctioned by the court in Henderson v. Mayor of New York,... | |
 | John V. Orth - 1995 - 220 páginas
...approval a famous sentence by US Supreme Court Justice Stanley Matthews, the state supreme court observed: "If it is applied and administered by public authority with an evil eye and an unequal hand, so as to make unjust and illegal discriminations between persons in similar circumstances, material to their... | |
 | Charles J. McClain - 1994 - 400 páginas
...put it in words that have since been repeated numerous times in American constitutional discourse: "Though the law itself be fair on its face and impartial...equal justice is still within the prohibition of the Constitution."143 The lower court decisions in Yick Wo and Wo Lee were accordingly reversed and the... | |
 | John R. Wunder - 1996 - 392 páginas
...fair on its face and impartial in its appearance, yet, if it is applied and administered hy puhlic authority with an evil eye and an unequal hand, so...practically to make unjust and illegal discriminations hetween persons in similar circumstances, material to their rights, the denial of equal justice is... | |
 | Hadley Arkes - 1997 - 316 páginas
...Matthews wrote, in a moving opinion, the "law itself [might] be fair on its face," and yet, "it [was] applied and administered by public authority with an evil eye and an unequal hand."31 The "evil" in the case was defined in the same terms that constituted the wrong in Truax v.... | |
 | Jonathan D. Spence - 1998 - 308 páginas
...Francisco authorities that though the ordinance might "be fair on its face, and impartial in appliance, yet, if it is applied and administered by public authority...discriminations between persons in similar circumstances," then there had been a denial of justice. In the case of Yick Wo, and over two hundred other laundrymen... | |
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Though the law itself be fair on its face and impartial in appearance, yet, if it is applied and administered by public authority with an evil eye and an unequal hand, so as practically to make unjust and illegal discriminations between persons in similar... 
