Letter from Ernest Besig, Director, American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, to K. James Otsuka, January 13, 1943
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Jenuary 13, 1943,
Ur. Ky James Otsuka, 7
7105=B, Tulelake Project,
Hewell, Calif.
Dear Mr. Otsuikas
This will acknowledge the receipt of your
letter of January 4 returning two copies of the briefs in the
Korematsu ease, and enclosing a money order for the mterial
you kept. I can well appreciate that the limited income of
evacuees Joes not allow investment in all kinds of literature,
You will be interested to learn that sinee I
last wrote to you the Cirouit Court of Appeals has set the
Korematsu and Hirebayashi cases for argument on January 506
The court will sit in bank, which means thet instead of the
usual three-man court, seven judges will sit on the case, I
am told it is the third time in the history of the court.
The Regan case, testing the citizenship right
of American-born Japanese, will be heard by the court at the
same time. ,
Sincerely yours,
Ernest Besig, Director.
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