THIS DAY AT LAW
Today in legal history...
Friday, December 18, 2009
Supreme Court upheld wartime detention of Japanese-Americans
On December 18, 1944, the US Supreme Court decided
Korematsu v. United States
, upholding the wartime relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps.
Read
Executive Order 9066
, issued by President Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, under which the internments were authorized. View
photos from the Japanese American internment camps
, collected by the University of Utah Library.
Link
post |
IM
post | go to
JURIST
| © JURIST, 2004
CONTACT
This Day at Law
welcomes reader comments, tips, URLs, updates and corrections. E-mail us at
JURIST@pitt.edu