This is the 11th part of an ongoing series on seminal cases in American law. The United States Supreme Court is — as its name suggests — the supreme law of the land. To torture a Harry Truman aphorism ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Peter Irons and Karen Korematsu discuss the legacy of the Korematsu v. United States case and decision. Peter Irons and Karen Korematsu discuss the ...

WASHINGTON — In the annals of Supreme Court history, a 1944 decision upholding the forcible internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II has long stood out as a stain that is almost ...

The Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Korematsu v. United States (1944), upheld a government program that required the exclusion of Japanese American citizens from areas along the West Coast on the ...

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 Supreme Court’s decision in Korematsu v. United States (1944), upholding the forced evacuation of American citizens of Japanese descent from their homes for no reason other than their ancestry, ...

WASHINGTON -- Two of the three most infamous Supreme Court decisions were erased by events. The Civil War and postwar constitutional amendments effectively overturned Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), ...