Korematsu vs United States Supreme Court Case

What did the 14th and 5th Amendment state?

14th: Citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws (must treat citizens the same). 5th: Right to life, liberty, and property

What was the time period of the Korematsu vs United States case?

1942-was forced to a Japanese-American internment camp, but refused. 1944-the Supreme Court held the case

What was the Executive Order 9066?

FDR's order to place all Japanese Americans in Internment Camps.

What discrimination did Japanese-Americans face?

Fred Korematsu believed sending people to internment camps and punishing them based on their race was discrimination. Korematsu refused to leave his home because of this.

What was the Federal Court Decision?

Fred Korematsu took his case to the federal court, ruled against him; appealed and took case to the Supreme Court on the basis that Order 9066 violated the 14th and 5th Amendments.

Who was Fred Korematsu?

Japanese-American living in San Leandro, California who sued the United States for the relocating the Japanese-Americans into internment camps after Pearl Harbor.

What was Espionage considered in this time?

Japanese-Americans were accused of spying for the Japanese against the United States.

What was Korematsu's and other Japanese-Americans punishment during this time?

Japanese-Americans were forced to internment camps on the west coast of the United States due to the suspicion of espionage. The United States Government rounded up 120,000 people with a Japanese ancestry for detention.

What later action was made in 1980's?

Overturned decades later in 1983 and was given a Presidential Medal of Freedom by Bill Clinton.

What was the Supreme Court's decision?

Ruled 6-3 against Korematsu and upheld that the order was constitutional and legal.