McGrath Atty. Gen. v. Tadayasu Abo McGrath Atty. Gen. v. Kaname Furuya

These are appeals from two decrees based on findings that each of some 4315 plaintiffs below, Japanese descended native born United States citizens, was coerced by the conditions at the Tule Lake concentration camp in California, such conditions being caused by the United States officials having the plaintiffs in their charge, into a mental condition causing each against his or her free will to execute a document, procured in a proceeding before the Attorney General.under § 401 (i) of the Nation ality Act of 1940, as amended, renouncing the plaintiff’s American citizenship. It was found further .that the Attorney General had determined that each plaintiff is a dangerous enemy alien, subject to deportation to Japan, and that at the time the complaints were filed each was held for deportation, purportedly pursuant to the Alien Enemy Act of 1798, Presidential Proclamations 2525 and 2655 and the Regulations issued by the Attorney General thereunder.

The decrees held each of the 4315 renunciation documents to be null and void ab initio, and order each cancelled and set aside and declared each appellee to be and to have been from birth a citizen of the United States and enjoined the…