It was not until 1954 that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that detention (i.e., of Japanese Americans) was unconstitutional.

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The U.S. Supreme Court never ruled that the detention of Japanese Americans during World War II was unconstitutional. The 1954 reference is likely a confusion with Brown v. Board of Education, which declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional. The key cases during WWII, Hirabayashi v. United States and Korematsu v. United States, upheld the constitutionality of curfews and internment based on military necessity.

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