SOC216H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Saskatoon Freezing Deaths, Racial Profiling, Precedent
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Wiped it clean to make it sound racially neutral. Underlying ulterior motives to control chinese immigrant population by those making the law. Judge read letter of law so ignores this case surprising outcome, juxtaposition. Even if you control everything, always a potential for a surprising: judicial precedent later gets ignored outcome. Principal of stare decisis judicial law sets precedence for future cases. Although law is repressive, yee clun had the resources to create a case. Not everyone has resources like clun to launch a challenge. Supreme court of canada struck down the laws. Lawmaking: two competing strands happening at this time, labour. Chinese women could not enter canada: morality. Generally white middle-class women would somehow be corrupted by. How does that relate to the law: see these variables in yee clun case, research discrimination suits show that law cannot handle intersectional variables.
