Alameda County (Hayward)
HAYWARD — Judge Dennis Hayashi was part of the litigation team on a landmark civil rights case that vacated a decades-old conviction against Fred Korematsu, who fought all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court to try to prove the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II was unconstitutional.
Hayashi was about a decade removed from law school in the early 1980s when the case was argued in San Francisco. He couldn’t... (continued)