CLARK v. INOUYE

No. 11839.

175 F.2d 740 (1949)

CLARK, Atty. Gen. et al. v. INOUYE et al.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

June 23, 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, Attorneys, 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., Counsel, American Civil Liberties Union, of counsel), for appellee.

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


DENMAN, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment declaring that the renunciations of citizenship executed by appellees are null and void and restoring appellees to their rights of United States citizenship.

Appellees, all of whom were born in the United States, were interned in Relocation Centers established to take care of persons of Japanese ancestry after their exclusion from certain areas of the West Coast in 1942. Pursuant to 58 Stat. 677, 8 U.S...

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