Hirabayashi v. United States (1987)

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Hirabayashi v. United States
Court	United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Full case name	Gordon K. Hirabayashi v. United States of America; United States of America v. Gordon K. Hirabayashi
Argued	March 2 1987
Decided	September 24 1987
Citation	828 F.2d 591 (9th Cir. 1987)
Case history
Prior history	No. C83-122V, 627 F. Supp. 1445 (W.D. Wash. 1986)
Court membership
Judges sitting	Alfred Goodwin, Mary M. Schroeder, Joseph Jerome Farris
Case opinions
Majority	Schroeder, joined by Goodwin, Farris

Hirabayashi v. United States, 828 F.2d 591 (9th Cir. 1987), is a case decided by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and recognized for both its historical and legal significance. The case is historically significant for vacating the World War II–era convictions of Japanese American civil rights leader Gordon Hirabayashi. Those convictions were affirmed in the Supreme Court's 1943 decision Hirabayashi v. United States. The case is legally significant for establishing the standard to determine when any federal court in the Ninth Circuit may issue a writ of coram nobis.