KOREMATSU v. UNITED STATES

No. 22.

323 U.S. 214 (1944)

KOREMATSU v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 18, 1944.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Wayne M. Collins and Charles A. Horsky argued the cause, and Mr. Collins was on the brief, for petitioner.

Solicitor General Fahy, with whom Assistant Attorney General Wechsler and Messrs. Edward J. Ennis, Ralph F. Fuchs, and John L. Burling were on the brief, for the United States.

Messrs. Saburo Kido and A.L. Wirin filed a brief on behalf of the Japanese American Citizens League; and Messrs. Edwin Borchard, Charles A. Horsky, George Rublee, Arthur DeHon Hill, Winthrop Wadleigh, Osmond K. Fraenkel, Harold Evans, William Draper Lewis, and Thomas Raeburn White on behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union, as amici curiae, in support of petitioner.

Messrs. Robert W. Kenney, Attorney General of California, George Neuner, Attorney General of Oregon, Smith Troy, Attorney General of Washington, and Fred E. Lewis, Acting Attorney General of Washington, filed a brief on behalf of the States of California, Oregon and Washington, as amici curiae, in support of the United States.


MR. JUSTICE BLACK delivered the opinion of the Court.

The petitioner, an American citizen of Japanese descent, was convicted in a federal district court for remaining in San Leandro, California, a "Military Area," contrary to Civilian Exclusion Order No. 34 of the Commanding General of the Western Command, U.S. Army, which directed that after May 9, 1942, all persons of Japanese ancestry should be excluded from that area...

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