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Fifth Annual Chief Justice Ronald M. George Distinguished Lecture: Veterans In The Judiciary, Lisa Lomba
Fifth Annual Chief Justice Ronald M. George Distinguished Lecture: Veterans In The Judiciary, Lisa Lomba
Ronald M. George Distinguished Lecture Series
Program Handbook for:
October 17, 2013
Fifth Annual Chief Justice Ronald M. George Distinguished Lecture:
Veterans in the Judiciary
Featuring: Associate Justice Ming. W. Chin, Supreme Court of California
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October 18, 2013: First Annual Veterans Law Conference
Presented by the Law Students Veterans Coalition of Northern California
Wwii Japanese Internments: Can It Happen Again?, Karen Korematsu, Robert Leon Rusky, Nasrina Bargzie
Wwii Japanese Internments: Can It Happen Again?, Karen Korematsu, Robert Leon Rusky, Nasrina Bargzie
The Jesse Carter Distinguished Lecture Series
In 1942 at the age of 23, Fred Korematsu intentionally defied Executive Order 9066 and refused to go to the government’s incarceration camps for American citizens of Japanese ancestry. After he was arrested and convicted of defying the government’s curfew law, he appealed his case all the way to the United States Supreme Court. In 1944, the Supreme Court ruled against him, ruling that the incarceration was justified due to military necessity. It was not until 1983 that a team of lawyers helped overturn Korematsu’s conviction in the United States District Court, Northern District of California.
On September 23, 2010, …