The Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the San Francisco laundry licensing board had engaged in discriminatory application of the law in the case of __________.

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The case of Yick Wo v. Hopkins involved a laundry owner, Yick Wo, who was of Chinese descent and had been denied a permit to operate his laundry due to a discriminatory application of a San Francisco ordinance. The Supreme Court ruled that the licensing board had violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, making this choice the correct answer.

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