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How did the Supreme Court rule in Ex parte Mitsuye Endo?
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Restaurant “under new management” as a result of the U.S. government's relocation order for Japanese Americans during World War II.
In Ex parte Mitsuye Endo, the Supreme Court ruled that the War Relocation Authority did not have the power to detain citizens against whom no charges of disloyalty or subversiveness had been made. The Court stated that detention should not extend beyond the time necessary to separate the loyal from the disloyal. This decision, made on the same day as the Korematsu v. United States ruling, effectively forbade the government from detaining a U.S. citizen whose loyalty had been established.123