Legal Opinion
William Hohri v. United States
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided February 12, 1986No. 84-5460PublishedCited by 514 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*231J. SKELLY WRIGHT, Circuit Judge:
In the spring of 1942 the government of the United States forcibly removed some 120,000 of its Japanese-American citizens from their homes and placed them in internment camps. There they remained for as long as four years. When the constitutionality of this action was challenged in the Supreme Court the government justified its actions on the grounds of “military necessity.” The Supreme Court deferred. Nearly forty years later, a congressional commission concluded that the government’s asserted justification was without foundation. It is now alleged that this…
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