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HOHRI v. UNITED STATES

No. 84-5460.

782 F.2d 227 (1986)

William HOHRI, et al., Appellants v. UNITED STATES of America.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided January 21, 1986.

As Amended January 28 and February 12, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benjamin L. Zelenko, Washington, D.C., with whom B. Michael Rauh and Ellen Godbey Carson, Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellants.

Jeffrey Axelrad, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., with whom Richard K. Willard, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., Washington, D.C., and Joseph E. diGenova, U.S. Atty., Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellee.

George Timothy Gojio, was on the brief for amicus curiae Japanese American Citizens League, urging reversal.

Before WRIGHT and GINSBURG, Circuit Judges, and MARKEY, Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Opinion for the court filed by Circuit Judge WRIGHT.

Dissenting opinion filed by Chief Judge MARKEY.

J. SKELLY WRIGHT, Circuit Judge:

In the spring of 1942 the government of the United States forcibly removed some 120,000 of its Japanese-American citizens from their homes and placed them in internment camps. There they remained for as long as four years. When the constitutionality of this action was challenged...

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