In Yick Wo v. Hopkins (1886), the Court invalidated a San Francisco ordinance requiring owners of ________ housed in wooden buildings to obtain permission from the Board of Supervisors to continue operating their businesses.

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Yick Wo v. Hopkins invalidated a San Francisco ordinance that discriminated against Chinese immigrants who owned laundries by requiring them to obtain permission from the Board of Supervisors to continue operating their businesses. The Court found that the ordinance was enforced in a discriminatory manner, as white laundry owners were not required to obtain the same permission, and therefore was a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

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