A principled stand : the story of Hirabayashi v. United StatesIn 1943, University of Washington student Gordon Hirabayashi defied the curfew and mass removal of Japanese Americans on the West Coast, and was subsequently convicted and imprisoned as a result. In A Principled Stand, his prison diaries and wartime correspondence to tell the story of Hirabayashi v. United States, the Supreme Court case that in 1943 upheld and on appeal in 1987 vacated his conviction. Gordon Hirabayashi was a Quaker. Secondary Resource.