Webb v. O'Brien

Webb v. O'Brien, 263 U.S. 313 (1923), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States upheld a ban on cropping contracts, which technically dealt with labor rather than land and were used by many Issei to avoid the restrictions of California's alien land act.^[1] It overturned a lower court decision.

Webb v. O'Brien
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued April 23-24, 1923 Decided November 19, 1923
Full case name	Webb v. O'Brien
Citations	263 U.S. 313 (more)
Case history
Prior	O'Brien v. Webb, 279 F. 117 (N.D. Cal. 1921)
Holding
It is not a violation of the Treaty of Commerce and Navigation or the Constitution for a State to forbid a contract which would allow an alien ineligible for citizenship the ability to use land for agricultural purposes.
Court membership
Chief Justice William H. Taft Associate Justices Joseph McKenna · Oliver W. Holmes Jr. Willis Van Devanter · James C. McReynolds Louis Brandeis · George Sutherland Pierce Butler · Edward T. Sanford
Case opinions
Majority	Butler, joined by Taft, McKenna, Holmes Jr., Devanter, Sanford
Dissent	McReynolds, joined by Brandeis
Sutherland took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.
Laws applied
Treaty of Commerce and Navigation between Japan and the USA, U.S. Const., California Alien Land Law of 1913

See also

• List of United States Supreme Court immigration case law