Endo was the only plaintiff to win an internment case with a unanimous ruling in favor of the plaintiff.Supreme Court Justice Frank Murphy stated that “Detention in Relocation Centers of persons of Japanese ancestry regardless of loyalty is not only unauthorized by Congress or the Executive, but is another example of the unconstitutional resort to racism inherent in the entire evacuation program.”.This ended Japanese incarceration for “concededly loyal” Japanese Americans. The Court of Appeals sent it to the Supreme Court for a final decision, which then ruled in favor of Endo.
Her first petition was dismissed without explanation after a year at the District Court, but Purcell appealed the decision. Endo was the “only female resistor” of Executive Order 9066 whose case reached the Supreme Court.She was the only plaintiff who chose to stay in incarceration, in order to ensure her case would be active, even after the War Relocation Authorities (WRA) presented her with an offer of freedom under the pretense that she couldn’t return to the West Coast afterward, according to the New York Times.Endo’s methodist background, previous employment as a clerical worker for the state of California, her brother being in the army and that she had never been to Japan made her case the “perfect” one for “protesting detention,” according to Advancing Justice-Asian Law Caucus.
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