[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4781 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4781

To designate the United States courthouse located at 3140 Boeing Avenue 
     in McKinleyville, California, as the ``Judge Louis E. Goodman 
                             Courthouse''.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 22, 2019

Mr. Huffman (for himself, Ms. Lee of California, Mr. Vargas, Ms. Eshoo, 
 Mr. Swalwell of California, Mr. Lowenthal, and Ms. Porter) introduced 
      the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                   Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
To designate the United States courthouse located at 3140 Boeing Avenue 
     in McKinleyville, California, as the ``Judge Louis E. Goodman 
                             Courthouse''.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds the following:
            (1) Louis Earl Goodman was appointed to the United States 
        District Court for the Northern District of California in 1942 
        by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
            (2) Judge Goodman served as Chief Judge of the United 
        States District Court for the Northern District of California 
        from 1958 until his death in 1961.
            (3) During his tenure on the bench, Judge Goodman's 
        opinions significantly advanced civil rights.
            (4) Seventy-five years ago Judge Goodman handed down the 
        first of only 2 rulings upholding the civil rights and civil 
        liberties of Japanese Americans during World War II despite 
        significant professional and personal risk to himself.
            (5) The historic ruling in United States v. Masaaki 
        Kuwabara would mark one of many significant rulings 
        distinguishing Judge Goodman's career.
            (6) After such ruling, Judge Goodman played a major role in 
        restoring the United States citizenship of thousands of 
        Japanese Americans who had been pressed to renounce such 
        citizenship while under duress and detained by armed guard.
            (7) On the 75th anniversary of his opinion in United States 
        v. Masaaki Kuwabara, naming the United States courthouse in 
        McKinleyville after Judge Goodman honors his legacy, recognizes 
        his moral force in the judiciary during one of the darkest 
        chapters in the civil rights history of the United States, and 
        commends his unwavering dedication to ensuring equal protection 
        for all Americans under the law, thereby upholding the promise 
        of the Constitution of the United States.

SEC. 2. DESIGNATION.

    The United States courthouse located at 3140 Boeing Avenue in 
McKinleyville, California, shall be known and designated as the ``Judge 
Louis E. Goodman Courthouse''.

SEC. 3. REFERENCES.

    Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, paper, or other 
record of the United States to the United States courthouse referred to 
in section 2 shall be deemed to be a reference to the ``Judge Louis E. 
Goodman Courthouse''.
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