Certified letter from Abe Fortas, Secretary of the Interior to Solicitor General Charles Fahy, October 20, 1944

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United States of America

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

WASHINGTON, D. C.

October pound0, 1944 , 19

Pursuant to Title 28, Paragraph 661, United States Code, | hereby certify that

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the seal of the Department of the Interior to be

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etary of the Interior.

THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR

WASHINGTON 25

October 13, 1944.

Res Application of Mitsuye Endo for a

Writ of Habeas Corpus, U. S. Sup. Ct.,

October Term, 1944, No.70.

My dear Mr. Fahy:

I shall appreciate your advising the Supreme Court of the United

States that in the event that, upon the petition filed in the above-

entitled case, a writ of habeas corpus is issued by the United States

District Court for the Northern District of California, Southern Divi-

sion, calling for the production of the corpus of the petitioner, and

in the event that the writ should be directed to the Secretary of the

Interior; to Dillon 5. Myer, Director of the War Relocation Authority,

an agency of this Department; to Robert Cozzens, Assistant Director of the

War Relocation Authority who has his office in San Francisco, California

(within the jurisdiction of said United States District Court); or to

any other official of the War Relocation Authority, the corpus of the

petitioner will be produced and the, court's order will be complied with

in all respects.

As you know, and as you stated to the Supreme Court in argument on

October 12, 1944, the removal of the petitioner from the jurisdiction

of said United States District Court was part of a general segregation

program involving the removal of many people and was in no way related

to the pending proceeding.

Sincerely yours,

(SGD.) ABE FORTAS

Acting Secretary of the Interior.

Hon. Charles Fahy,

Solicitor General.

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Mitsuye Endo case files from the ACLU of Northern California records

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Title: Certified letter from Abe Fortas, Secretary of the Interior to Solicitor General Charles Fahy, October 20, 1944
Creator: Fortas, Abe
Date: 1944 October 20
Identifier: MS-3580-1127_0026
Description: Certified copy of a letter from Abe Fortas to Charles Fahy regarding the application of Mitsuye Endo for write of habeas corpus in the Supreme Court. Attached to chs_ms3580_0210.
Genre: correspondence
Physical description: 2 pages, 10.5 x 8 inches, typescript
Preferred citation: Certified letter from Abe Fortas, Secretary of the Interior to Solicitor General Charles Fahy, October 20, 1944; American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California Records--Case Files, 1934-1993--Endo, Mitsuye, 1942-1944, MS 3580-1127; California Historical Society.
Rights statement: In Copyright
Publication rights: Copyright (or related rights to publicity and privacy) for materials in this collection, created by the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California and other parties, was not transferred to the California Historical Society (CHS). Permission for reproduction or publication of materials in this collection beyond that allowed by fair use must be secured from the copyright holder.
Topical subject(s): Japanese Americans
World War II--Mass removal ('Evacuation')--Exclusion orders
World War II--Mass removal ('Evacuation')--Japanese American community responses
World War II--Resistance and dissidence--Supreme Court cases
Activism and involvement--Civil rights
Activism and involvement--Civil liberties
Immigration and citizenship--Law and legislation--Legal cases
Named subject(s): American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California
Endo, Mitsuye
Geographical subject(s): Washington (D.C.)
Finding Aid: https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt009nf073/
Collection identifier: MS 3580-1127