Korematsu v. United States

E94860

United States Supreme Court case civil liberties case landmark case

Korematsu v. United States is a landmark 1944 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld the wartime internment of Japanese Americans, later widely condemned as a grave civil liberties violation.

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Label	Occurrences
Korematsu v. United States canonical	11
Korematsu	1
Korematsu v. United States (majority opinion)	1

Statements (53)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	United States Supreme Court case ⓘ civil liberties case ⓘ landmark case ⓘ
areaOfLaw	civil rights ⓘ constitutional law ⓘ national security law ⓘ
citation	323 U.S. 214 ⓘ
constitutionalProvision	Article II of the United States Constitution ⓘ Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
court	Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ
decisionDate	1944-12-18 ⓘ
dissentingJustices	Justice Frank Murphy ⓘ surface form: Frank Murphy Justice Owen J. Roberts ⓘ surface form: Owen J. Roberts Robert H. Jackson ⓘ
fullName	Korematsu v. United States self-link ⓘ
geographicScope	West Coast of the United States ⓘ
holding	upheld the exclusion and internment of Japanese Americans during World War II as a valid exercise of war powers ⓘ
jurisdiction	federal ⓘ
languageOfProceeding	English ⓘ
laterCharacterization	example of judicial deference to the military ⓘ example of racial discrimination upheld by the Supreme Court ⓘ widely condemned as a grave civil liberties violation ⓘ
legalIssue	Equal Protection component of the Fifth Amendment Due Process Clause ⓘ constitutionality of Japanese American internment ⓘ war powers of the President and Congress ⓘ
majorityJustices	Felix Frankfurter ⓘ Harold H. Burton ⓘ Hugo L. Black ⓘ surface form: Hugo Black Justice Owen J. Roberts ⓘ surface form: Owen J. Roberts Robert H. Jackson ⓘ Stanley Reed ⓘ William O. Douglas ⓘ
majorityOpinionBy	Hugo L. Black ⓘ surface form: Hugo Black
overruledStatus	not formally overruled but repudiated ⓘ
pageInUnitedStatesReports	214 ⓘ
petitioner	Fred Korematsu ⓘ
raceClassification	Japanese ancestry ⓘ
relatedCase	Ex parte Endo ⓘ Hirabayashi v. United States ⓘ Yasui v. United States ⓘ
relatedExecutiveOrder	Executive Order 9066 ⓘ
relatedLegislation	Public Law 503 ⓘ
respondent	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
shortName	Korematsu v. United States self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Korematsu
standardOfReview	strict scrutiny (later characterization) ⓘ
subjectMatter	internment of Japanese Americans ⓘ military exclusion orders ⓘ
subsequentDevelopment	conviction of Fred Korematsu vacated by coram nobis in 1983 ⓘ effectively disavowed by the Supreme Court in Trump v. Hawaii (2018) ⓘ
volumeOfUnitedStatesReports	323 ⓘ
warContext	World War II ⓘ
yearDecided	1944 ⓘ

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