Redress Provisions for Persons of Japanese Ancestry: Guidelines Under Ishida v. United States

摘要

On April 22, 1996, the Department of Justice published in the Federal Register (61 FR 17667) a proposed rule to amend the Department's regulation governing redress provisions for persons of Japanese ancestry. This change will amend the standards of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 to make eligible for payments of $20,000 those persons who were born after their parents ``voluntarily'' evacuated from the prohibited military zones of the West Coast of the United States as a result of military proclamations issued pursuant to Executive Order 9066. This change will also make eligible for redress those persons who were born outside the prohibited military zones in the United States after their parents were released from internment camps during the defined war period and whose parents had resided in the prohibited military zones on the West Coast immediately prior to their internment. The period for accepting comments was published as ending on June 6, 1996. Due to a clerical mistake, however, the period for accepting comments should end on June 20, 1996, upon the expiration of the standard sixty day comment period. Due to this mistake and requests from interested parties to have the full