Date 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 Majority Taft, joined by unanimous | ||
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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