A Journal of Ex parte Mitsuye Endo, 19421947. ![]() The army opened up the West Coast to 'loyal' Japanese Americans just prior to the Supreme Court decision, which had been leaked to government officials. In reaching that conclusion, we do not come to the underlying constitutional issues which have been argued. Mitsuye Endo was born on May 10, 1920, in Sacramento, California, the daughter of Japanese immigrants and the second of four children. However, she had gone through the appropriate government procedures and had been classified as loyal to the United States. United States is The detainment of Japanese Americans was ruled unconstitutional Ex parte Endo, or Ex parte Mitsuye Endo, 323 U.S. Mitsuye Endo had lived in the California capital of Sacramento, worked for the California Department of Motor vehicles, was a practicing Christian, could neither speak nor read Japanese, and had. In this case Mitsuye Endo had been caught attempting to escape from a detention center. On the same day, the Court also released its decision on another lesser-known but arguably more important case dealing with internment: Ex Parte Endo. Her petition for a writ of habeas corpus alleges that she is a loyal and law-abiding citizen of the United States, that no charge has been made against her, that she is being unlawfully detained, and that she is confined in the Relocation Center under armed guard and held there against her will…įirst. We are of the view that Mitsuye Endo should be given her liberty. That decision was softened-but only slightly-by Ex parte Endo (1944), handed down the same day. On February 19, 1942, the President promulgated Executive Order No. It need be only briefly recapitulated here. United States is The detainment of Japanese Americans was ruled unconstitutional Ex parte Endo, or Ex parte Mitsuye Endo, 323 U.S. Ex Parte Endo In 1942, the California State Highway Commission in Sacramento, California dismissed Mitsuye Endo from her civil service stenographer job and the military ordered her to a detention center. ![]() ![]() The history of the evacuation of Japanese aliens and citizens of Japanese ancestry from the Pacific coastal regions, following the Japanese attack on our Naval Base at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and the declaration of war against Japan on December 8, 1941, 55 Stat. In handing down the decision on the eviction, the Supreme Court avoided the ruling on the internment. JUSTICE DOUGLAS delivered the opinion of the Court…
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