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On May 23, 2019 AABANY co-sponsored a reenactment of the Supreme Court cases Takao Ozawa v. United States (1922) and United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind (1923) in the Ceremonial Courtroom at 225 Cadman Plaza, Brooklyn. The two historical cases describe the exclusionary immigration policies that prevented Asian immigrants from becoming naturalized citizens. The reenactment scripts were written by longtime AABANY members Kathy Hirata Chin and her husband, the Hon. Denny Chin. The event was jointly sponsored by the South Asian Bar Association of New York (SABANY) and was held in honor of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, during the month of May. The event was covered by the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported on the history of these reenactments, “The Chins began writing and performing these reenactments 12 years ago, and every year they create a new performance based on a different case. Judge Chin explained that they look for cases of importance historically and that still resonate today.”

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AABANY is a proud co-sponsor of the following events in celebration of APA Heritage Month, and we invite you to join us at one or more of them in May. If you have any questions, contact us at [email protected].

Time/Location	Event
May 13 6:00 pm	AABANY Co-Sponsors: Brooklyn Women’s Bar Association APAHM Celebration
Location: 123 Remsen Street Brooklyn, New York	The Brooklyn Women’s Bar Association and the Asian American Judges Association of New York are celebrating APA Heritage Month. The Honorable Pamela K. Chen, EDNY, will be the Special Honoree at the celebration. For more information, go to https://www.aabany.org/events/event_details.asp?legacy=1&id=1229319
May 14 8:30 am – 12:15 pm	AABANY Co-Sponsors: The Fight for Justice: 75th Anniversary of Korematsu v. US
Location: Robert H. Jackson Center 305 E. 4th Street Jamestown, New York	AABANY’s classic trial reenactment is making a return in celebration of APA Heritage Month as well as the 75th anniversary of the Korematsu decision. We are honored to have invited Karen Korematsu, daughter of Fred Korematsu; John Q. Barrett, Professor at St. John’s University School of Law; Hon. Denny Chin, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Thomas Loftus, Justice Jackson’s Grandson. For more information, go to https://www.aabany.org/events/event_details.asp?legacy=1&id=1231073
May 15 5:30-8:30PM	AABANY Co-Sponsors: Alice in Chinatown: Chol Soo Lee and His Fight for Freedom
Location: Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP 200 Liberty Street New York, New York 10281	Led by the Honorable Denny Chin, AABANY’s trial reenactment team will celebrate APA Heritage Month by retelling the story of Chol Soo Lee, a young Korean American who was wrongly accused and imprisoned for a gangland murder in San Francisco’s Chinatown. The effort to free him represented the beginning of Asian American activism in the 1970s. For more information, go to https://www.aabany.org/events/event_details.asp?legacy=1&id=1229620
May 22 4:30-7:30 pm	AABANY Co-Sponsors “Abacus: Small Enough to Jail”
Location: Four Gateway Center 100 Mulberry Street Newark, New Jersey 07102	AABANY will join APALA-NJ, McCarter & English and KALAGNY for a networking reception and a screening of the documentary Abacus: Small Enough to Jail, which tells the story of the Chinese immigrant Sung family’s resilience against injustice when their bank was the only one pursued by prosecutors in the wake of the 2008 financial collapse. For more information, go to https://www.aabany.org/events/event_details.asp?legacy=1&id=1229311
May 22 5:30-8 pm	“Murder of Vincent Chin” Trial Reenactment
Location: White & Case LLP 1221 6th Ave New York, New York 10020	White & Case presentes a reenactment of “Building Our Legacy: The Murder of Vincent Chin,” one of AABANY’s best known and most performed reenactments. From AABANY’s Trial Reenactments website: “Vincent Chin was beaten to death in 1982 in Detroit. When the assailants didn’t even receive jail time, the injustice galvanized the Asian American community.” For more information, go to https://www.aabany.org/events/event_details.asp?legacy=1&id=1214265
May 29 6:00 pm	AABANY Co-Sponsors: Breaking Through: A Look Beyond the Bamboo Ceiling
Location: Lowenstein Sandler 1251 Avenue of the Americas 17th Floor New York, New York	Please join the Diversity and Leadership Network and AABANY in celebrating Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month! The DLN will host an informative conversation with guest speakers, including the Honorable Justice Jeffrey K. Oing, Lawson Huynh, Associate at Lowenstein Sandler, Blossom Kan, Assistant General Counsel for MetLife, and Sonia Low, General Counsel of Jacob J. Javits Center, about the challenges and successes of Asians and Pacific Islanders in the legal profession. For more information, go to https://www.aabany.org/events/event_details.asp?legacy=1&id=1238912
May 30 6:00- 8:00 pm	AABANY Presents: Annual Judicial Reception Hosted by Judiciary Committee
Location: The Surrogate’s Courthouse Courtroom 503 31 Chambers St New York, New York	The Judiciary Committee hosts its Annual Judicial Reception to honor newly inducted, currently sitting and retired Asian American, Pacific Islander and South Asian judges. For more information, go to https://www.aabany.org/events/event_details.asp?legacy=1&id=1227878

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