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HOHRI v. UNITED STATES

Civ. A. No. 83-0750.

586 F.Supp. 769 (1984)

William HOHRI, et al., Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

May 17, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benjamin L. Zelenko, B. Michael Rauh, Ellen Godbey Carson, Landis, Cohen, Singman & Rauh, Washington, D.C., for plaintiffs.

J. Paul McGrath, Asst. Atty. Gen., Richard K. Willard, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., Jeffrey Axelrad, Atty., Torts Branch, Civil Div., Dept. of Justice, Stanley E. Harris, Joseph E. diGenova, U.S. Attys., Washington, D.C., for defendant.

MEMORANDUM

OBERDORFER, District Judge.

During World War II, the United States government removed some 120,000 American citizens and residents of Japanese ancestry from their West Coast homes and placed them in internment camps for up to four years. The stated reason for this unprecedented policy of evacuation and incarceration was "military necessity": the Nation was at war with Japan, and military officials feared that members of the American Japanese population...

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