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Mineta joins with Korematsu Center to challenge citizenship question on census
July 10, 2018
Former Secretary of Commerce Norman Y. Mineta and the Sakamoto sisters were incarcerated during World War II because of their Japanese ancestry.
Cary Moon to keynote forum on land use and homelessness
February 01, 2018
Civic leader Cary Moon will deliver the keynote speech at an upcoming forum on land use and homelessness sponsored by Seattle University School of Law, the Homeless Rights Advocacy Project, and Seattle Journal for Social Justice.
Hirabayashi, Yasui, Korematsu families file brief in Supreme Court in opposition to travel ban
September 18, 2017
The Korematsu Center filed an amicus brief on behalf of the children of Gordon Hirabayashi, Minoru Yasui, and Fred Korematsu in opposition to Trump's travel ban.
Korematsu Center fights DOJ order blocking legal help for immigrants
June 23, 2017
People have First Amendment rights to receive information and ideas from legal advisers, and lawyers have similar rights to express those ideas, according to a brief filed by the Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality in support of legal advocates who have been ordered to stop helping immigrants.
Ethnic studies case heads to trial in Tucson
June 21, 2017
The case that helped launch the law school’s Civil Rights Clinic in 2012 heads back to the courtroom this summer, as Professor Robert Chang and a team of attorneys continue legal efforts to protect ethnic studies in Arizona.