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Affidavit in support of application for permission to file brief as amicus curiae, File no. 23688 S

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Title: Affidavit in support of application for permission to file brief as amicus curiae, File no. 23688 S
Creator: Besig, Ernest: author
Collins, Wayne M.: contributor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1942-07-15
Contributing Institution: California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection: CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
Rights Information: Copyright (or related rights to publicity and privacy) for materials in this collection, created by the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California and other parties, was not transferred to the California Historical Society (CHS). Permission for reproduction or publication of materials in this collection beyond that allowed by fair use must be secured from the copyright holder.
Description: Affidavit signed by Ernest Besig, director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, in support of application for permission to file brief as amicus curiae by the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, in the matter of the application of Mitsuye Endo for a writ of habeas corpus. Filed in the southern division of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
The ACLU-Northern California case file records contain legal documents and correspondence pertaining to the case Ex parte Mitsuye Endo (1944), in which the United States Supreme court unanimously ruled that the federal government could not indefinitely detain United States citizens who were loyal to the government. Files include documents related to the Gordon Hirabayashi Supreme Court case Hirabayashi v. United States.
Type: text
Format: Official documents; Memorandum
2 pages, 14 x 8.5 inches, typescript
application/pdf
Identifier: MS-3580-1127_0005
chs_ms3580_0190
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/53121
Language: English
Subject: World War II--Mass removal ('Evacuation')--Exclusion orders
World War II--Mass removal ('Evacuation')--Japanese American community responses
World War II--Resistance and dissidence--Supreme Court cases--Mitsuye Endo
Activism and involvement--Civil rights
Activism and involvement--Civil liberties
Immigration and citizenship--Law and legislation--Legal cases
Place: San Francisco, California
Source: California Historical Society
Relation: California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt009nf073/
American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California Records--Case Files, 1934-1993--Endo, Mitsuye, 1942-1944

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