Gerald Robert Sheridan v. United States

I would reverse.1

In the host of selective service cases which have been passed upon by the courts in recent years, this becomes the only decision which holds that a local draft board may justify by subsequent events postponement of a registrant’s induction in lieu of granting him his rightful statutory deferment. The concomitant denial of due process flowing from the registrant’s loss of his right to a personal appearance and an administrative appeal not only is contrary to the law of this circuit but the law everywhere else. See, e. g., United States v. Rundle, 413 F.2d 329, 332-334 (8 Cir.…