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Hugo Black wrote the majority opinion in which case that upheld the internment of Japanese Americans?
Korematsu v. United States
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Korematsu v. United States was a landmark Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled 6-3 that the exclusion of Japanese Americans from the West Coast during World War II was constitutional. Justice Hugo Black wrote the majority opinion, which held that the government's interest in national security outweighed the individual rights of Japanese Americans.
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