Legal Opinion

Goldberg v. Rostker

District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania

Decided August 6, 1980No. Civ. A. 71-1480PublishedCited by 8 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

MEMORANDUM

CAHN, District Judge.

I. PRELIMINARY STATEMENT

Before this three-judge court is the issue of the constitutionality of the selective service registration of males only, as provided for in the Military Selective Service Act, 50 U.S.C.App. § 451 et seq. (hereafter MSSA). In preliminary proceedings we set forth the history of this case, Goldberg v. Tarr,F.Supp.-, No. 71-1480 (E.D.Pa. Feb. 19, 1980). 1 We will not repeat it here. In that opinion we identified plaintiffs’ constitutional argument as follows:

[Tjheir rights to equal protection of the law, as that concept is included in the due…

2Cases cited31 opinions

  1. Baker v. CarrSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
  2. Stanley v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
  3. McGowan v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
  4. Shapiro v. ThompsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
  5. Craig v. BorenSupreme Court of the United States · 1976

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3Cited by8 opinions

  1. Rostker v. GoldbergSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
  2. Katcoff v. MarshDistrict Court, E.D. New York · 1984
  3. Kyle-Labell v. Selective Serv. Sys.District Court, D. New Jersey · 2019
  4. Rostker v. GoldbergSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
  5. Schwartz v. BrodskyDistrict Court, D. Massachusetts · 2003

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