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Johnson v. Eisentrager 339 U.S. 763 (1950) was a major decision of the U.S. Supreme Court where it decided that U.S. courts had no jurisdiction over German war criminals held in a U.S.-administered prison in Germany. The prisoners had at no time been on American sovereign territory. This decision was weakened by the Court’s ruling in Braden v. 30th Judicial Circuit Court (1973) when the court found that the key to jurisdiction was whether the Court could process service to the custodians.