Madera Tribune, Number 86, 12 May 1952 — No Attempt Set To 'Reanimate' Alien Land Law [ARTICLE]

No Attempt Set To 'Reanimate' Alien Land Law

SAN FRANCISCO (UP' California will make no attempt to "reanimate" Its alien land law, declared unconstitutional by the state's Supreme Court. Attorney General Edmund G. Brown said today. The statute, in effect for 1)2 years, has bailed Japanese, Koreans and others ineligible for C S. citizenship from owning property in California. Brown's statement described the law as the state's last legal leninanl of racial discrimination, continuing : "Now that our state Supreme Court has given this law its death blow, I can see no justifiable nor supportable legal reason which in good conscience would cause me to adopt a course of action seeking to reanimate this law in California. “My office is in full accord with the legal conclusions reached in the decision by the court.” He declared the law's appeal to the IT. S. Supreme Court would serve "no legal, useful, humane, nor any effective purpose." The California court ruled April 17. four to three, that the law violates due process and equal protection clauses in the 14th amendment to the constitution. Chief Justice Phil S. Gibson, in announcing the decision, said the real purpose of the act was "the elimination of competition by alien Japanese in farming California land."