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Article: The Japanese American cases, 1942-2004: a social history.(Judgments Judged and Wrongs Remembered: Examining the Japanese American Civil Liberties Cases of World War II on their Sixtieth Anniversary)
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- Law and Contemporary Problems
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- March 22, 2005
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This essay addresses--and attempts to explain--the changing reactions (or, in some cases, the lack of reaction) by the government and by the public to the incarceration of the Japanese Americans of the West Coast during World War II and in the six decades since then. The legal literature about the cases is vast and will not be recapitulated at any length here.
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THE LAW'S DELAY
The Japanese American cases arose from actions taken by the federal government stemming from President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066, issued on February 19, 1942. (1) Even before the process of incarcerating Japanese American citizens began in March 1942, ...