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JUDICIAL DECISIONS INVOLVING QUESTIONS OF

INTERNATIONAL LAW

TRUAX AND THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE STATE OF ARIZONA V. RAICH

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided November 1, 1915

A law enacted by the State of Arizona and proclaimed by the Governor on December 14, 1914, provided that

Any company, corporation, partnership, association or individual who is, or may hereafter become an employer of more than five (5) workers at one time, in the State of Arizona, regardless of kind or class of work, or sex of workers, shall employ not less than eighty (80) per cent qualified electors or native-born citizens of the United States or some sub-division thereof.

Raich (the appellee), a native of Austria, and an inhabitant of Arizona but not a qualified elector, was employed as a cook by the appellant, William Truax, Sr., in his restaurant in Bisbee, Ariz. Truax had nine employés, seven of whom were neither native-born citizens of the United States nor qualified electors. After the passage of the act, Truax informed Raich that, by reason of its requirements and because of the fear of the penalties that would be incurred in case of its violation, he would be discharged when the law was proclaimed. Thereupon Raich filed a bill in equity in the District Court of the United States asserting that the act denied him the equal protection of the laws and hence was contrary to the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, and sought a decree declaring the act to be unconstitutional and restraining the State officers and his employer from taking action thereunder. After a hearing before three judges, the United States District Court granted an injunction restraining the Attorney General of the State and the county attorney from enforcing the act against Truax. (219 Fed. Rep. 273.) An appeal from this decision was taken to the Supreme Court of the United States. After disposing of several contentions of the defendants in support of their motion to dismiss the bill, the

Supreme Court, speaking through Mr. Justice Holmes, decided upon the constitutional question as follows:

The question then is whether the act assailed is repugnant to the Fourteenth Amendment. Upon the allegations of the bill, it must be assumed that the complainant, a native of Austria, has been admitted to the United States under the Federal law. He was thus admitted with the privilege of entering and abiding in the United States, and hence of entering and abiding in any State in the Union. (See Gegiow v. Uhl, Commissioner, decided October 25, 1915, ante, p. 3.) Being lawfully an inhabitant of Arizona, the complainant is entitled under the Fourteenth Amendment to the equal protection of its laws. The description-'any person within its jurisdiction'-as it has frequently been held, includes aliens. "These provisions," said the court in Yick Wo v. Hopkins, 118 U. S. 356, 369 (referring to the due process and equal protection clauses of the Amendment), "are universal in their application, to all persons within the territorial jurisdiction, without regard to any differences of race, of color, or of nationality; and the equal protection of the laws is a pledge of the protection of equal laws." See also Wong Wing v. United States, 163 U. S. 228, 242; United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U. S. 649, 695. The discrimination defined by the act does not pertain to the regulation or distribution of the public domain, or of the common property or resources of the people of the State, the enjoyment of which may be limited to its citizens as against both aliens and the citizens of other States. Thus in McCready v. Virginia, 94 U. S. 391, 396, the restriction to the citizens of Virginia of the right to plant oysters in one of its rivers was sustained upon the ground that the regulation related to the common property of the citizens of the State, and an analogous principle was involved in Patsone v. Pennsylvania, 232 U. S. 138, 145, 146, where the discrimination against aliens upheld by the court had for its object the protection of wild game within the State with respect to which it was said that the State could exercise its preserving power for the benefit of its own citizens if it pleased. The case now presented is not within these decisions, or within those relating to the devolution of real property (Hauenstein v. Lynham, 100 U. S. 483; Blythe v. Hinckley, 180 U. S. 333, 341, 342); and it should be added that the act is not limited to persons who are engaged on public work or receive the benefit of public moneys. The discrimination here involved is imposed upon the conduct of ordinary private enterprise.

The act, it will be observed, provides that every employer (whether