Yu Cong Eng v. Trinidad

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
Case history
Prior	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 opinion
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.

External links

• Text of Yu Cong Eng v. Trinidad, 271 U.S. 500 (1926) is available from: Justia Library of Congress
• Excerpts from the text of the Supreme Court decision