Farrington, Governor v. T. Tokushige

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the parental “right to direct the education of his own child without unreasonable restrictions”
• explaining that despite “grave problems” incident to changing social conditions, the government cannot infringe on the “fundamental rights of the individual” that the Fourteenth Amendment was enacted to protect
• stating that the Constitution protects “those who speak another tongue”
• recognizing a similar right under the Fifth Amendment
• striking down a Hawaiian statute which effectively would have eliminated foreign language schools
• the Court held prohibition of foreign language schools to be unreasonable interference with parents' interests in having children taught in their native language

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).