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For many, the lot on the corner of Third and Harrison streets in San Francisco is just a place to park before heading to a Giants game or an event downtown.<\/p>\n

On Monday, around 50 people gathered at the unremarkable concrete patch in the South of Market neighborhood for a different reason: to commemorate the 140th anniversary of Yick Wo v. Hopkins, <\/em>a late 19th-century landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision.<\/p>\n

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