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Ex parte Quirin, 317 U.S. 1 (1942), was a case of the United States Supreme Court that during World War II upheld the jurisdiction of a United States military tribunal over the trial of eight German saboteurs, in the United States. [1] Quirin has been cited as a precedent for the trial by military commission of unlawful combatants.
Yasui v. United States, 320 U.S. 115 (1943), was a United States Supreme Court case regarding the constitutionality of curfews used during World War II when they were applied to citizens of the United States. [1]
Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214 (1944), was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that upheld the internment of Japanese Americans from the West Coast Military Area during World War II.
Cramer appealed his conviction to the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, where his conviction was upheld. [10] Appealing to the court of last resort, the Supreme Court, Cramer was granted certiorari on November 8, 1943. [11] The case was originally argued on March 9, 1944; [12] reargued on November 6, 1944; and finally decided on April 23 ...
Texas, 347 U.S. 475 (1954), was a landmark case, "the first and only Mexican-American civil-rights case heard and decided by the United States Supreme Court during the post-World War II period." [ 1 ] In a unanimous ruling, the court held that Mexican Americans and all other nationality groups in the United States have equal protection under ...
Here are five of the biggest cases in which the Supreme Court is expected to weigh in by the end of this t (The Center Square) – The U.S. Supreme Court has released a string of landmark rulings ...
He was arrested and convicted. After losing in the Court of Appeals, he appealed to the United States Supreme Court, challenging the constitutionality of the deportation order. The Supreme Court upheld the order excluding persons of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast war zone during World War II. Three justices dissented.
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts slammed what he described as “dangerous” talk by some officials about ignoring federal court rulings, using an annual report weeks before President ...