http://www.oyez.org/cases/1940-1949/1944/ U.S. Supreme Court Decisions, presented by The Oyez Project (www.oyez.org) en-us <p>No details yet.</p> http://www.oyez.org/cases/1940-1949/1944/1944_57/ <p>Did the President and Congress go beyond their war powers by implementing exclusion and restricting the rights of Americans of Japanese descent?</p><p>The Court sided with the government and held that the need to protect against espionage outweighed Korematsu's rights. Justice Black argued that compulsory exclusion, though constitutionally suspect, is justified during circumstances of "emergency and peril."</p> http://www.oyez.org/cases/1940-1949/1944/1944_22/ <p>No details yet.</p> http://www.oyez.org/cases/1940-1949/1944/1944_656/ <p>Was the Arizona law an unconstitutional burden on interstate commerce?</p><p>Yes it was such a burden. The Arizona law imposed a stiff burden on the railroad. It had to operate 30 percent more trains in the state, and it had to break up and remake trains passing through the state. The total cost was several million dollars a year. Moreover, more trains would produce more accidents and the state's safety argument was empirically weak. The innovation in this decision was Stone's use of an "interest-balancing" standard of review, which proved more demanding than the earlier "rational basis" test.</p> http://www.oyez.org/cases/1940-1949/1944/1944_56/ <p>Does the Texas law requiring labor organizers to secure permission to solicit members violate the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment?</p><p>Yes, the law was unconstitutional. It interfered with freedom of speech and freedom of assembly which possesses "a sanctity and a sanction not permitting dubious intrusions."</p> http://www.oyez.org/cases/1940-1949/1944/1944_14/