9th circuit — Online Journal — Columbia Undergraduate Law Review

Korematsu and the Muslim Ban: The Legal Consequences of Unchecked Executive Power

In 1942, Fred Korematsu was arrested on a street corner in California. His crime was refusing to evacuate to an internment camp and comply with President Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066. Under the executive order, over 120,000 men, women, and children of Japanese descent were forced to relocate from their homes on the coasts to remote camps inland; they had been deemed a “national security threat” after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. [1] Korematsu was the first man to legally challenge the order in Korematsu v. United States.

Sarah LuApril 28, 2018muslim ban, executive power, supreme court, 9th circuit, 4th circuit, national security, constitutional lawComment

Protecting Your DNA: The Unraveling of Privacy in Genetic Testing

When one saliva sample can reveal anything from a customer’s hair color to their risk of Alzheimer’s, it is understandable that each individual would want to protect this information. GINA’s broad jurisdiction in the workplace and in health insurance as well as constitutional rights to privacy provide such security; but holes in GINA’s jurisdiction and a lack of court precedent also remind us that genetic privacy is not guaranteed.

Sophia AhmedAugust 24, 2017privacy, GINA, DNA, 9th circuit, supreme courtComment