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Ex parte endo
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'''Ex parte Endo''' was a
United States Supreme Court decision, handed down on
December 18 1944, the same day as their decision in ''
Korematsu v. United States''. In their decision, the Supreme Court ruled that, regardless of whether the United States Government had the right to exclude people of
Ethnic Japanese Japanese ancestry from the
West Coast of the United States West Coast during
World War II, they could not continue to detain a citizen whom the government itself conceded was loyal to the
United States. This decision helped lead to the re-opening of the West Coast for resettlement by
Japanese American Japanese-American citizens following their internment in camps across the United States during
World War II.
Mitsuye Endo, the plaintiff in the case, was evacuated from
Sacramento, California, in 1942, pursuant to
Executive Order 9066 and was removed to the
Tule Lake War Relocation Center located in
Modoc County, California. In July, 1942, she filed a petition for a
writ of habeas corpus in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, asking that she be discharged and restored to liberty. That petition was denied by the District Court in July, 1943, and an appeal was prefected to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in August, 1943.
The court also found as part of this decision that if Congress is found to have ratified by appropriation any part of an executive agency program, the bill doing so must include a specific item referring to that portion of the program.
The unanimous opinion was written by
William O. Douglas, with
Frank Murphy and
Owen Josephus Roberts Owen Roberts concurring.
See also
*
Executive Order 9066
*''
Korematsu v. United States''
*
Japanese American Internment
External links
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Text of decision (findlaw.com)
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see
Ex parte Endo
