Asakura v. City of Seattle, 211

CourtU.S. Supreme Court
CitationAsakura v. City of Seattle, 265 U.S. 332, 44 S.Ct. 515, 68 L.Ed. 1041 (1924)
Decision Date25 February 1924
Docket NumberNo. 211,211
PartiesASAKURA v. CITY OF SEATTLE et al

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    • United States
    • California Supreme Court
    • April 17, 1952
    ...own citizens. BACARDI CORP. V. DOMENECH, 311 U.S. 150, 158-159, 61 S.CT. 219, 224, 85 L.ED. 98;4 Asakura v. City of Seattle, 265 U.S. 332, 340, 44 S.Ct. 515, 516, 68 L.Ed. 1041; see Maiorano v. Baltimore & Ohio R. Co., 213 U.S. 268, 273-274, 29 S.Ct. 424, 425-426, 53 L.Ed. 792; Chew Heong v......
  • Sanchez-Llamas v. Bustillo
    • United States
    • U.S. Supreme Court
    • June 28, 2006
    ...the respective laws grant ... in each of these states to the subjects of the most favored nation.’ ” And in Asakura v. Seattle, 265 U.S. 332, 340, 44 S.Ct. 515, 68 L.Ed. 1041 (1924), the Court allowed a foreign national to challenge a city ordinance forbidding noncitizens from working as pa......
  • U.S. v. Verdugo-Urquidez
    • United States
    • U.S. Court of Appeals — Ninth Circuit
    • July 22, 1991
    ...v. Domenech, 311 U.S. 150, 61 S.Ct. 219, 85 L.Ed. 98 (1940) (trademark rights under multilateral treaty); Asakura v. Seattle, 265 U.S. 332, 44 S.Ct. 515, 68 L.Ed. 1041 (1924) (right of alien to engage in trade under treaty with Japan); Ware v. Hylton, 3 U.S. (Dall.) 199, 1 L.Ed. 568 (1796) ......
  • Factor v. Laubenheimer
    • United States
    • U.S. Supreme Court
    • December 4, 1933
    ...U.S. 453, 475, 11 S.Ct. 897, 35 L.Ed. 581; Tucker v. Alexandroff, 183 U.S. 424, 437, 22 S.Ct. 195, 46 L.Ed. 264; Asakura v. Seattle, 265 U.S. 332, 44 S.Ct. 515, 68 L.Ed. 1041. Unless these principles, consistently recognized and applied by this Court, are now to be discarded, their applicat......
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  • The treaty power and American federalism.
    • United States
    • Michigan Law Review Vol. 97 No. 2, November 1998
    • November 1, 1998
    ...that the treaty power is "broad enough to cover all subjects that properly pertain to our foreign relations"); Asakura v. City of Seattle, 265 U.S. 332, 341 (1924) (noting that the treaty power "extend[s] to all proper subjects of negotiation between our government and other (226.) See supr......
  • Medellin, Avena, the supremacy of treaties, and relevant executive authority.
    • United States
    • Suffolk Transnational Law Review Vol. 31 No. 2, June 2008
    • June 22, 2008
    ...Rights under the Consular Convention, 92 AM. J. INT'L L. 691, 692 nn.8-10 (1998); PAUST, supra note 31, at 68-71; see also Asakura v. Seattle, 265 U.S. 332, 341 (1924) ("A treaty [thus, any treaty] made under the authority of the United States 'shall be the supreme law of the land."'(quotin......
  • Limits on the Use of Force in Maritime Operations in Support of WMD Counter-Proliferation Initiatives
    • United States
    • International Law Studies No. 81, July 2006
    • July 1, 2006
    ..."national treatment" to nationals of the other State. Such treaties have been held to be self- executing. Asakura v. City of Seattle, 265 U.S. 332, 341 (1924) (holding that the FCN treaty between the United States and Japan "operates of itself without the aid of any legislation"). 120. Unit......
  • Enforcing the treaty rights of aliens.
    • United States
    • Yale Law Journal Vol. 117 No. 4, January 2008
    • January 1, 2008
    ...challenge a law that limited the right to recover an inheritance as a violation of U.S.-Serbian friendship treaty); Asakura v. City of Seattle, 265 U.S. 332, 340-41 (1924) (allowing alien to challenge law forbidding Japanese noncitizens from obtaining pawnbroking licenses as a violation of ......
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