Don Tamaki Quoted in TIME Article on Calif. Apology to Chinese Americans
Minami Takaki partner Donald K. Tamaki is quoted in a TIME.com article on the California State Legislature's "landmark bill to apologize to the state's Chinese-American community for racist laws enacted as far back as the mid–19th century Gold Rush."
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http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1911981,00.html
... most notably, in 1988 the U.S. government decided to pay $20,000 to each of the surviving 120,000 Japanese Americans imprisoned in camps during World War II. Says Donald Tamaki, a San Francisco–based attorney who helped overturn wrongful WWII-era convictions of Japanese Americans: "Part of what a humane society does is recognize past injustices and address them."
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http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1911981,00.html