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Today in Supreme Court History: May 11, 1942

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5/11/1942: Gordon Hirabayashi "failed to report to the Civil Control Station within the designated area." The Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of his conviction in Hirabayashi v. U.S. (1943).

Gordon Hirabayashi

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