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Gordon Hirabayashi's Convictions Vacated

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The Ninth Circuit vacated Gordon Hirabayashi's wartime curfew and exclusion convictions in a coram nobis ruling, finding the government had suppressed evidence-echoing Fred Korematsu's 1983 vindication.

Communities
  • Japanese American
Topics
  • incarceration
  • redress
Event type
  • court case

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