Orloff v. Willoughby, Colonel, U.S. Army

ORR, Circuit Judge.

Appellant petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus. The petition was denied. He appeals. Appellant is a medical doctor, specializing in psychiatry. On July 26, 1951 he was inducted into the armed forces as a private by authority of the so-called “Doctors Draft Law,” Public Law 779, 81st Cong., 2d Sess., 1950 U.S.Code Congressional Service, p. 885. The statute grants the President of the United States authority to “ * * * require special registration of and, on the basis of requisitions submitted by the Department of De*210fense and approved by him, to make special calls for male…