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Joaquín Oliver Vermeulen1º GBD – ESADE Business & Law School – English II

March 2015

Korematsu

vs

united states

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"As lo ng a s m y re c o rd s ta nd s in fe d e ra l c o urt, a ny Am e ric a n c itiz e n c a n be he ld in p ris o n o r c o nc e ntra tio n c a m p s witho ut tria l o r he a ring . I wo uld like to s e e the g o ve rnm e nt a dm it the y we re wro ng a nd d o s o m e thing a bo ut it, s o this will ne ve r ha p p e n a g a in to a ny Am e ric a n c itiz e n o f a ny ra c e , c re e d , o r c o lo r. “

Fre d Ko re m a ts u (1 9 8 3 ), o n his d e c is io n to a g a in cha lle ng e his c o nv ic tio n 40 y e a rs la te r

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Background information

December 1941 port of Pearl Harbor ➝ attacked by the Japanese.

February 1924 President D. Roosevelt signed ➝ ➝ Executive Order 9066E. Order 9066 allowed the military to move Japanese Americans ➝to special camps.

Appears Fred Korematsu.

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The case

Korematsu American citizen / Japanese parents ➝ ➝refused to go.

Korematsu took the case to the courts.

The US government said the evacuation was necessary.

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Finally…

Agreed with the US government.

The case went to the US Supreme Court.

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US Supreme Court decision

The vote was 6-3 in favor of the US.

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The lasting impact. Now…Japanese internment camps now.

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Bibliography

http://www.infoplease.com/us/supreme-court/cases/ar18.html

http://www.streetlaw.org/en/Page/303/Important_Vocabulary_

http://www.streetlaw.org/en/Page/297/Background_Summary__Questions_

http://es.slideshare.net/EVHSbeach/korematsu-vs-united-states

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korematsu_v._United_States

http://www.oyez.org/cases/1940-1949/1944/1944_22

https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/323/214