Korematsu, who died March 30, 2005 at the age of 86, would have turned 100 this year. “This is a pretty special case,” Dale Minami, the lead attorney on Korematsu’s 1983 team, told NBC News.

Ferguson, Korematsu v. United States and Buck v. Bell. Each case is a blight in our nation’s legal history, and each resulted because the Supreme Court deviated from the Constitution’s text.

Today, Korematsu v. U.S. is often described as one of the Supreme Court’s worst precedents. Widely rejected but never overturned, it is part of an anti-canon that legalized discrimination, ...

Fred Korematsu, the Japanese American whose court case over his refusal to be interned during World War II went to the U.S. Supreme Court and became synonymous with this nation’s agonized debate ...

Justice Sonia Sotomayor pushed Chief Justice John Roberts to declare: “Korematsu was gravely wrong the day it was decided, has been overruled in the court of history” ...

The Korematsu ruling approved the mass removal of an entire racial group from a region of the country, something that, we can assume, is unlikely to recur.

Fred Korematsu, 86, who unsuccessfully fought Japanese American internment camps during World War II before finally winning in court nearly four decades later, died March 30 at his daughter's home ...

Korematsu, who unsuccessfully fought the order to be sent to a Japenese American internment camp during World War II, died Wednesday, March 30, 2005. He was 86.

The Korematsu decision, which upheld the exclusion based on military necessity, came on the same day that the Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that the detention of Japanese Americans who were loyal to the ...

The third, Korematsu v. United States (1944), which affirmed the president's wartime power to sweep Americans of disfavored racial groups into concentration camps, elicited a 1988 congressional ...