Law Archives - Page 17 of 31

Marilyn Patel

Federal judge who in 1983 overturned Fred Korematsu ‘s criminal conviction for violating the military’s World War II order that all Japanese Americans leave the West Coast.

Sue Jamieson

Lawyer in the landmark disability rights case Olmstead v. L.C.

Elaine Wilson

Defendant in the landmark disability rights case Olmstead v. L.C.

Lorraine Bannai

Attorney, law professor and member of Fred Korematsu’s coram nobis team.

Mitsuye Endo

Plaintiff in the landmark lawsuit that ultimately led to the closing of the concentration camps and the return of Japanese Americans to the West Coast in 1945.

Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga played a crucial role in the Japanese-American redress movement by discovering critical evidence of premeditated governmental misconduct during WWII, and making it available to multiple groups of activists.

Chiyoko Sakamoto

Chiyoko Sakamoto Takahashi (1912-94) earned the distinction of being the first Asian American woman admitted to the California State Bar as well as the first and only Nisei woman to practice law in California into the early post-World War II period.

Haruye Masaoka

The 1950-52 California court case Haruye Masaoka v. California (39 Cal 2nd 883) was the final victory in a series of postwar legal cases by Japanese Americans in California courts that led to the demise of the state’s established Alien Land Act.

Lily Okamoto

A Hawai’i-born, politically active Sansei who was the first woman in the Islands to be both a certified public accountant and licensed attorney.

Rose Matsui Ochi

While serving as a Reginald Heber Smith Fellow for the Western Center on Law and Poverty she won the landmark educational law reform case, Serrano v. Priest, serving as the co-counsel of record.