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Japanese Internment Cases and Michelle Malkin's Book

I should stop writing this paper and start reading the news again. As reported by Tim Wu on the Lessig Blog, blogger Michelle Malkin has published a book defending Japanese Internment during World War II. First read Wu's comment, Eric Muller's critique of the book on Volkh, (start at the top and work your way down) and Malkin's response.

For a review of your Constitutional Law, (or if you get these three cases confused all the time like I do) see Hirabayashi v. United States(upholding a curfew applying only to Japanese Americans), Korematsu v. United States (upholding the evacuation of Japanese-Americans), and Ex Parte Endo (holding the continued detention of Japanese Americans as unwarranted. The court never declared the evacuation and internment of Japanese-Americans unconstitutional.

Gilbert Submits

Gilbert Submits: Just discovered the blog of Judge Arthur Gilbert, Presiding Justice of Division 6 of the California Court of Appeals, Second District. In this homage to his colleague, the late Judge Tom Crosby, he recaps some of Crosby's famous one-liners:

"'While a picture might be worth a thousand words, the jury heard at least that many.'(Akers v. Miller 68 Cal.App.4th 1143, 1147 (1998).) 'Vincent Van Gogh wrote to his brother in May 1889 that his madness should be viewed as a disease like any other. More than a century later, health care insurers still do not share this outlook. ' (Warner v. California Physicians Service (1998) G016812, unpublished.) 'Considering [the fathers] own claims of poverty, we are puzzled why he has chosen to pay his attorneys (at $250 per hour) to pursue this appeal rather than to pay a much lesser sum to his own children. One hour of his attorney's time would cover ten months of additional support for each child.'(In re Marriage of Estrada (2001) G02730l unpublished.) 'After school and during vacation periods, the streets, beaches, homes and malls are crowded with unattended children. Some of them are lonely; some get hurt or killed; and many are victimized or victimize others. This is all a shame, one of the great failings of our otherwise fabulously wealthy society . . . .' (In re Kamiya (1998) G022140, unpublished.) '[Appellant] did not receive ineffective assistance of counsel; sadly, her son had an ineffective mother.' (In re Cody W. 31 Cal.App.4th 221, 223-224 (1994).) 'Whatever hat the contractor may have worn, it simply did not cover an insured head.' (Campobasso v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. (1998) G016911 unpublished.)
'[Defendant] was 'guilty' of only one thing--constructive possession of an ice-cold 12-pack. A sin, perhaps, in some quarters, but a far cry from the FBI's 'most wanted list.'' (Huynh v. Superior Court (2000) unpublished.) '[A]n auto thief, like a second story man apprehended in the victimized premises, has no standing "

Zoning and Recovery Housing

baltimoresun.com - Good neighbors Fantastic op-ed piece, and right on target. Kudos to the Sun for publishing something this enlightened and correct.