Korematsu v. United States was a controversial U.S. Supreme Court decision made in the aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor. It established that the U.S. government could intern Japanese ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Peter Irons and Karen Korematsu discuss the legacy of the Korematsu v. United States case and decision. Peter Irons and Karen Korematsu discuss ...

Eighty years ago, Korematsu v. United States upheld the incarceration of Japanese Americans. The racism and hysteria that fueled that decision are still with us today.

When the U.S. Supreme Court delivered its verdict in Korematsu v. United States on December 18, 1944, it had been over two and a half years since Fred Korematsu was arrested in San Leandro ...

Today marks 80 years since the United States Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of orders resulting in the mass internment of Japanese Americans in Korematsu v.

By order of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, affirmed by the Supreme Court in Korematsu v. United States (1944), Fred Korematsu had been deprived in 1942 of all his due process rights solely ...

The Supreme Court’s decision in Korematsu v. United States (1944), upholding the forced evacuation of American citizens of Japanese descent from their homes for no reason other than their ...

The court’s Korematsu v. United States opinion, written by Justice Hugo Black and issued one week before Christmas 1944, recounts the facts. In short, the commanding general of the U.S. Army’s western ...

Today marks 80 years since the United States Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of orders resulting in the mass internment of Japanese Americans in Korematsu v.

Professor Hank Adler of Chapman University discusses the income realization requirement dispute in the transition tax case Moore v. United States before the Supreme Court, and its implications on ...

8/11/1942: General John DeWitt, Commander of Western Defense Command, issues exclusion order. The Supreme Court held this order was constitutional in Korematsu v. United States.