The Korematsu decision is still controversial, ... The court ruled by a 6 to 3 vote that the government had the power to arrest and intern Fred Korematsu. Justice Hugo Black, writing for the ...

But though troubled by the ruling, Black was never able to bring himself to admit he was wrong. In a 1967 interview, Black said, "I would do precisely the same thing today, in any part of the country.

In one of its most widely condemned decisions, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the exclusion orders in Korematsu v.United States.Justice Hugo Black argued for a 6-3 majority that the exclusion ...

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 ...

Ad Policy. Fred Korematsu in 1983. (Gary Fong / San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images) On December 18, 1944, the Supreme Court issued one of its most notorious decisions: Korematsu v.United States.

“If it wasn’t for the Black Civil Rights Movement, where would we be?” said Don Tamaki, a Japanese American attorney and member of California’s reparations task force.

Newly published research on a new genus of California trapdoor spiders — the work of the Jason Bond laboratory, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology — calls attention to not only the ...

In a stratified culture, national heroes can be hard to find. Here in the United States of America, Fred Korematsu is surely a hero for us all. Korematsu — born in Oakland in 1919, died in Marin ...

Asian Law Alliance is pleased to announce that the Korematsu Day 2024 will be held on Saturday, January 27, 2024 from 11am to 1pm at the Wesley United Methodist Church at 566 N. 5th Street, San Jose.