Korematsu v United States was a 1944 decision of the Supreme Court of the United States upholding the conviction of Fred Korematsu for defying a military exclusion order issued under Executive Order 9066, the order that led to the forced removal and internment of roughly 120,000 Japanese Americans during the Second World War. The Court held the exclusion order was justified by pressing wartime military necessity. Korematsu's own conviction was vacated in 1983 after a coram nobis petition uncovered evidence that the government had suppressed and misrepresented the military necessity claims made to the Court. The Supreme Court itself repudiated the decision in Trump v Hawaii (2018), stating it had been gravely wrong the day it was decided and had already been overruled in the court of history.
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Decision Year Decision Date HoldingKorematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214 (1944), is a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that upheld the exclusion of people of Japanese descent from the West Coast Military Area during World War II, an exclusion that led to the internment of Japanese Americans. 1 Current StatusIn Trump v. Hawaii (2018), the Supreme Court overruled Korematsu v. United States. 1 Case Status
Case Status (category)Overruled (in whole or part) 1 Connections
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Majority opinion by Justice Hugo Black upholding the Japanese American exclusion order.
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Decided by the United States Supreme Court, 1944.
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Source Korematsu v United States (Wikipedia)Lead sentence 2tier 2Quote, Lead sentence 2
United States, 323 U.S. 214 (1944), is a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that upheld the exclusion of people of Japanese descent from the West Coast Military Area during World War II, an exclusion that led to the internment of Japanese Americans.
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Wikipedia lead paragraph, first sentence
Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214 (1944), is a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that upheld the exclusion of people of Japanese descent from the West Coast Military Area during World War II, an exclusion that led to the internment of Japanese Americans.
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In Trump v. Hawaii (2018), the Supreme Court overruled Korematsu v. United States.
In Group: Race and Segregation Cases, Introduction, sentences 1-3
Fred Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214 (1944), is a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that upheld the exclusion of people of Japanese descent from the West Coast Military Area during World War II, an exclusion that led to the internment of Japanese Americans.
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