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questions
directions: answer the following questions on a separate sheet of paper.
1. what elements in endo's background did the court find most important in ordering her release?
2. based on the court's decision in the endo case, on what grounds might other japanese americans have
successfully sued for their release from the evacuation centers?
3. how did justice murphy's view of the case differ from that of justice douglas?
4. if you had been a member of the supreme court in the endo case, would you have agreed with justice
douglas's reasoning or with justice murphy's?
5. how do you think it was possible for endo, interned in an evacuation center, to afford the costs of
appealing first to the united states court of appeals and then to the supreme court?
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