Word: sei
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opinion was delivered in the case of Sei Fujii, a sad-faced little Japanese who had bought a piece of Los Angeles real estate, but could not get legal title because of California's Alien Land Act. Under the act-which has been regularly attacked and just as regularly upheld by both state and federal courts for almost 30 years-aliens who are ineligible for citizenship may not own California land. Los Angeles Attorney J. Marion Wright argued that the Alien Land Act conflicted with the Charter of the U.N. The three appeals judges pondered, and decided, in fact...