
the court handed down the decision Ex parte Endo.

It rescinded the exclusion orders and declared that Japanese Americans could begin returning to the West Coast in January 1945. The documentary, Ex Parte Endo: A Journey Toward Justice for Japanese Americans, tells the story of Mitsuye Endo, a woman who challenged Japanese-American. Mitsuye Endo seated at her desk in the administrative office at the Central Utah relocation camp for Japanese Americans during World War II. 21 the day before the Endo and Korematsu rulings were made public, on December 17, 1944. The Roosevelt administration, having been alerted to the Court's decision, issued Public Proclamation No. The Court also found as part of this decision that if Congress is found to have ratified by appropriation any part of an executive agency program, the bill doing so must include a specific item referring to that portion of the program. The Endo case resulted in victory, but sidestepped the question of constitutional rights by holding only the War Relocation Authority (WRA) accountable being a law-abiding citizen, the WRA had no legal grounds to detain her. Ex parte Mitsuye Endo was a United States Supreme Court decision, handed down on December 18, 1944, the same day as their decision in Korematsu v. United States decision on the same date, the Endo ruling nonetheless led to the reopening of the West Coast to Japanese Americans after their incarceration in camps across the U.S. This decision helped lead to the re-opening of the West Coast for resettlement by Japanese-American citizens following their internment in camps across the United States during World War II. Although the Court did not touch on the constitutionality of the exclusion of people of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast, which it had found not to violate citizen rights in its Korematsu v. government could not continue to detain a citizen who was "concededly loyal" to the United States. Mitsuye Endo was a Nisei who had been working as a stenographer at the Department of Motor Vehicles in Sacramento.

283 (1944), was a United States Supreme Court ex parte decision handed down on December 18, 1944, in which the Justices unanimously ruled that the U.S. The government cannot detain a citizen without charge when the government itself concedes she is loyal to the United States.Įx parte Mitsuye Endo, 323 U.S. 283 (1944) The Roosevelt Administration, alerted in advance of the decision, preempted the release of the court’s opinion and rescinded Executive Order 9066 on December 17, 1944the day before the Endo ruling was handed down.
