[3] On August 20, 1942, stockbroker Harry E. White, a civilian, “unconnected with the armed forces of the United States,” was arrested for embezzlement.

Judge J. Frank McLaughlin granted his writ of Habeas Corpus and ordered White’s release without bond.

Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the Territory of Hawaii was placed under martial law and the writ of Habeas Corpus was suspended, along with other court functions.

But after the United States Navy’s victory in the Battle of Midway there was no threat of a land invasion by early June, 1942, preceding Harry White’s arrest.

Lt. General Robert C. Richardson Jr. threatened to jail both Judge Metzger and McLaughlin if they continued with these habeas corpus cases.

The Supreme Court, acknowledged the facts of the case, but ultimately it was determined that their ruling wouldn’t matter because the war had ended, along with martial law.

On June 1, 1948, U.S. Government officials raided and seized the Kotohira Jinsha Shrine under the Trading with the Enemy Act, and announced its sale the following year.

Senator J. Howard McGrath of Rhode Island was the Attorney General of the United States appointed by President Harry Truman in 1949.

Recent Harvard Law School graduate (Class of 1948) and future Hawaii Supreme Court Justice, Frank D. Padgett, argued his first case on behalf of the shrine.

Atheist Wladyslaw Plywacki was denied United States citizenship for declining to take the sworn oath of allegiance with the words, "So help me God."

This was a petition brought to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on April 8, 1955, by labor attorney, Richard Gladstein against U.S. Judge J. Frank McLaughlin.

In Dyer v. Kazuhisa Abe, Judge McLaughlin ruled that in certain circumstances the courts should remedy legislative districting issues when the legislature doesn't do this itself.

If the rights of the people are hindered or obstructed (actively or inactively) by the legislative body of elected representatives then the only available recourse for the individual is with the courts.

Judge McLaughlin's ruling addressed the territorial situation under the act, which was brought to the federal court by an Oahu voter.

This ruling was later overturned by the ninth circuit court of appeals in San Francisco, resulting in the new elections being called off.

220, 236 (an apportionment case in Hawaii which was reversed and dismissed as moot, 256 F.2d 728): "The whole thrust of today's legal climate is to end unconstitutional discrimination.