Legal scholars have long considered Korematsu v. United States as a part of the “anticanon” — a collection of high-profile Supreme Court cases that were wrongly decided — alongside Plessy v. Ferguson ...

When Fred Korematsu’s family was forced to leave their home for the Japanese internment camps in 1942, his father hid their family photographs in the rafters of their East Oakland flower nursery.

The Supreme Court finally took the step of overruling Korematsu vs. United States last week, its 1944 decision upholding the mass removal of Japanese Americans from their homes along the West Coast ...

In its tribute, Google stated: Today Google’s US homepage is celebrating Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu, civil rights activist and survivor of the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.

The central holding of Korematsu v. United States, the World War II Japanese internment case, is that courts should give deference to Congress and the military in times of war. The Court in Korematsu ...

California dedicated Jan. 30 to the memory of Fred Korematsu, a shipyard welder who legally objected to Japanese American "internment" in World War II.The state holiday, officially the Fred Korematsu ...

If there is a silver lining to the Supreme Court's summer ruling in Trump v. Hawaii, which upheld President Donald Trump's ban on travel from predominantly Muslim ...

The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa William S. Richardson School of Law has named Professor Susan K. Serrano as the Fred T. Korematsu Professor of Law and Social Justice. Awarded in August, the ...

The William S. Richardson School of Law has named University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Professor of Law Eric K. Yamamoto to a newly-established professorship—The Fred T. Korematsu Professor of Law and ...

For decades, Karen Korematsu has hoped and prayed that someday the U.S. Supreme Court would overturn its infamous 1944 decision upholding the mass incarceration of her father, Fred, and 120,000 others ...

Civil rights activist Fred Korematsu was honored with a Google Doodle on Monday to mark the 98th anniversary of his birth. The illustration was created by artist Sophie Diao who, like Korematsu, is ...