UNITED STATES v. MINORU YASUI

No. 16056.

48 F.Supp. 40 (1942)

UNITED STATES v. MINORU YASUI.

District Court, D. Oregon.

November 16, 1942.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carl C. Donaugh, U. S. Atty., and J. Mason Dillard, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Portland, Or., and Charles S. Burdell, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., of Seattle, Wash., for plaintiff.

Earl F. Bernard, of Portland, Or., for defendant.

Green & Landye, B. A. Green, James T. Landye, Dey, Hampson & Nelson, R. R. Morris, Jack M. McLaughlin, Hart, Spencer, McCulloch & Rockwood, Omar C. Spencer, Manley B. Strayer, Maguire, Shields, Morrison & Biggs, Randall Kester, and Gus J. Solomon, all of Portland, Oregon, amici curiae.

Earl Warren, Atty. Gen., of California, and Herbert E. Wenig, Deputy Atty. Gen., of California, for the State of California as amicus curiae.


JAMES ALGER FEE, District Judge.

On December 7, 1941, the armed forces of the Emperor of Japan attacked the bases of the United States in the Islands of the Pacific Ocean without warning and without declaration of war. Congress, on December 8, 1941, by joint resolution, declared a state of war to be existing between the Imperial Government of Japan and the Government and people of the United States.1

Thereafter, on December 11...

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