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	Landmark APA Legal Team Demands Commissioner’s Ouster Lawyers decry reference to Korematsu case By Andrew Chow AsianWeek Staff Writer A team of veteran Asian Pacific American civil rights lawyers has joined at least two other civil rights groups nationwide in calling for the removal of a U.S. civil rights commissioner over comments he made about Arab Americans and detention camps. In a letter to President George W. Bush on July 25, the team of eight lawyers — who argued successfully to overturn the landmark legal case Korematsu v. the United States in 1983 — demanded the removal of Commissioner Peter N. Kirsanow, a Cleveland attorney who said last month that if another terrorist attack by Arabs were to occur on U.S. soil, the American public would clamor for internment camps similar to those that detained Japanese Americans during World War II... COMPLETE STORY...		Demystifying Feng Shui (Feature) Landmark APA Legal Team Demands Commissioner’s Ouster (in National News) FBI Busts Korean American Sex Trafficking Ring (in Bay Area News) Ultimate Diversions: ‘Warcraft III’: Blizzard Does it Again (in Business) Easy Transition to Big Red Country (in Sports) Tricks of the Trade (in A&E) Emil Amok: Not Going To Do It (in Opinion)

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