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WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (4)— The supreme court today declared justified an order excluding Ja panese from the west coast which the army applied in March 1942 and revoked only yesterday. The court's 6-3 opinion by Jus tice Black on the issues of clusion did not rule on the consti tutional questions involved. In another opinion, the justices ruled unanimously that an Ameri can woman of Japanese descent was entitled to unconditional re lease from a war relocation author ity center — because she was conceded to be a loyal citizen. The opinion holding exclusion justified was given in the case of Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu, who was removed from his Cali fornia home to a war relocation authority center in Utah. The court's majority opinion in his case held that the exclusion order should be affirmed “as of the time it was made and when the petitioner ‘Korematsu viola ted it.”
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Big Spring Daily Herald
Big Spring, Texas, US
Mon, Dec 18, 1944
Page 8
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Emily T.
