Importantly, the era also saw the "Yick Wo v. Hopkins" case in 1886, the first case in which the US Supreme Court ruled that a law that was race-neutral on its face but administered discrimiatorily to be an infringement of the Equal Protection Clause. Although the law that banned wood laundries did not specify a certain race, it resulted in specifically radicalized impacts, and Yick Wo's lawyers discovered that the Chinese were singled out within the recorded minutes of the meeting. The case established that a law with unequal impact is discriminatory and therefore unconstitutional, and it also strengthened the equal protection outlined in the 14th Amendment.