Litigants: | Yu Cong Eng v. Trinidad |
Arguedatea: | April 12 |
Arguedateb: | 13 |
Argueyear: | 1926 |
Decidedate: | June 7 |
Decideyear: | 1926 |
Fullname: | Yu Cong Eng, et al. v. Trinidad, Collector, et al. |
Usvol: | 271 |
Uspage: | 500 |
Parallelcitations: | 46 S. Ct. 619; 70 L. Ed. 1059; 1926 U.S. LEXIS 642 |
Holding: | The Chinese Bookkeeping Act violated the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Philippine Autonomy Act. |
Majority: | Taft |
Joinmajority: | unanimous |
Lawsapplied: | 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.