YASUI v. UNITED STATES

No. 871.

320 U.S. 115 (1943)

YASUI v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 21, 1943.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. A.L. Wirin and E.F. Bernard (Mr. Ralph E. Moody was with the latter on the brief) for Yasui.

Solicitor General Fahy, with whom Messrs. Edward J. Ennis, Arnold Raum, John L. Burling, and Leo Gitlin were on the brief, for the United States.

Briefs of amici curiae were filed by Messrs. Arthur Garfield Hays, Osmond K. Fraenkel and A.L. Wirin, on behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union; by Mr. A.L. Wirin on behalf of the Japanese American Citizens League; and by Mr. Jackson H. Ralston on behalf of the Northern California Branch of the American Civil Liberties Union, — in support of Yasui; and by Messrs. Robert W. Kenny, Attorney General of California, I.H. Van Winkle, Attorney General of Oregon, and Smith Troy, Attorney General of the State of Washington, and Fred E. Lewis, Chief Assistant and Acting Attorney General of the State of Washington, on behalf of those States, — urging affirmance.


MR. CHIEF JUSTICE STONE delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is a companion case to Hirabayashi v. United States, ante, p. 81.

The case comes here on certificate of the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, certifying to us questions of law upon which it desires instructions for the decision of the case. § 239 of the Judicial Code as amended, 28 U.S.C. § 346. Acting under that section...

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