California Supreme Court
May 25, 2017
Japanese immigrant gets posthumous law license
Sei Fujii, a Japanese immigrant and prominent community activist who was prohibited from becoming a lawyer because of his ethnicity, received a posthumous law license from the state Supreme Court Wednesday.
By Kevin Lee
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Sei Fujii, a Japanese immigrant and prominent community activist who was prohibited from becoming a lawyer because of his ethnicity, received a posthumous law license from the state Supreme Court Wednesday.
A unanimous high court repudiated Fujii's "unjust exclusion from the legal profession" and praised his advocacy on behalf of the Japanese-American community.
"Desp...
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