Legal Opinion
Sunal v. Large
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 23, 1947No. 535; No. 840PublishedCited by 455 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Douglas
Sunal and Kulick registered under the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, 54 Stat. 885, 57 Stat. 597, 50 U. S. C. App. § 301, et seq. Each is a Jehovah’s Witness and each claimed the exemption granted by Congress to regular or duly ordained ministers of religion.1 § 5 (d). The local boards, after proceedings unnecessary to relate here, denied the claimed exemptions and classified these registrants as I-A. They exhausted their administrative remedies but were unable to effect a change in their classi*176fications. Thereafter they were ordered to report for induction — Sunal on October 25,…
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