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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’’. 
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) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Trans-
portation and Infrastructure 
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 Representa-
tives 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 Dis-
trict of California in 1942 by President Franklin 
Delano Roosevelt. 
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(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 Ameri-
cans during World War II despite significant profes-
sional and personal risk to himself. 
(5) The historic ruling in United States v. 
Masaaki Kuwabara would mark one of many signifi-
cant 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 du-
ress 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 dark-
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est 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 Con-
stitution 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 Court-
house’’. 
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 Court-
house’’. 
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