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ACHESON v. MURAKAMI

No. 12082.

176 F.2d 953 (1949)

ACHESON, Secretary of State v. MURAKAMI et al.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

August 26, 1949.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. G. Morison, Asst. Atty. Gen., James M. Carter, U. S. Atty., Ernest A. Tolin, Asst. U. S. Atty., Los Angeles, Cal., Enoch E. Ellison, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., Bonnell Phillips and Paul J. Grumbly, Attys. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

A. L. Wirin and Fred Okrand, Los Angeles, Cal. (Nanette Dembitz, Arthur Garfield Hays and Osmond K. Fraenkel, New York City, Frank F. Chuman, Los Angeles, Cal., of counsel), for appellees.

Before DENMAN, Chief Judge, and STEPHENS and ORR, Circuit Judges.

DENMAN, Chief Judge.

The Secretary of State appeals from a judgment cancelling the renunciations of citizenship by appellees, American born of Japanese descent, made while incarcerated at Tule Lake. The district court found that the renunciations were "not as a result of their free and intelligent choice but rather because of mental fear, intimidation and coercions depriving them of the free exercise of their will, [and] said purported renunciations are void and of...

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