Letter from Clifford Forster, American Civil Liberties Union, to Ernest Besig, Director, American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, April 1, 1943
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Letter from Clifford Forster to Ernest Besig, regarding the status of "all of the Japanese evacuation cases" being referred to the Supreme Court. Forster writes: "In view of the fact that, as I understand it, certain questions are being certified by the CCA to the Supreme Court, if we are to file a brief amicus in behalf of the Union we shall have to know what the questions were that are being certified. Or is the situation such that the cases in toto are being referred?" Forster suggests Besig to see Endo's attorney James C. Purcell, "and urge upon him the importance of getting Judge Roche to make a decision." 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.
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Correspondence 1 page, 11 x 8.5 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--Mitsuye Endo Activism and involvement--Civil rights Activism and involvement--Civil liberties Immigration and citizenship--Law and legislation--Legal cases
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