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Sentences forKorematsu v. United States
- Korematsu v. United States, a 6–3 decision upholding a Nisei's conviction for violating the military exclusion order, stated that, in general, the removal of Japanese Americans from the West Coast was constitutional.Internment of Japanese Americans-Wikipedia
- The Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the executive order in the 1944 case of Korematsu v. United States.Franklin D. Roosevelt-Wikipedia
- Morris Opler did, however, provide a prominent exception, writing two legal briefs challenging the exclusion for the Supreme Court cases of Gordon Hirabayashi and Fred Korematsu.War Relocation Authority-Wikipedia
- In 1944, Associate Justice Frank Murphy introduced the word "racism" into the lexicon of U.S. Supreme Court opinions in Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214 (1944).Jim Crow laws-Wikipedia
- In 1944, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the removal by ruling against Fred Korematsu's appeal for violating an exclusion order.Internment of Japanese Americans-Wikipedia
- Korematsu's case was heard and rejected at the US Supreme Court (Korematsu v. United States), the largest case to challenge internment, while Endo's case was upheld.Topaz War Relocation Center-Wikipedia
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