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Description
Letter from J. Charles Dennis to the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, regarding the case United States of America vs. Gordon Kiyoshi Hirabayashi, docket no. 45738. Letter states: "Gentlemen: Receipt is acknowledged of your letter of April 21st, 1943 relative to the above entitled cause with the enclosed consent for filing of brief as amicus curiae for my signature. Supreme Court cases are conducted by the Solicitor General, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. This office has no authority to consent. The original consent is enclosed." 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
Correspondence 1 page, 10.5 x 8 inches, typescript application/pdf
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--Gordon Hirabayashi 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
Seattle, Washington
Source
California Historical Society Collection at Stanford
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