Legal Opinion
Ehlert v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 21, 1971No. 120PublishedCited by 361 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Stewart
The question in this case is whether a Selective Service local board must reopen the classification of a registrant who claims that his conscientious objection to war in any form crystallized between the mailing of his notice to report for induction and his scheduled induction date. The petitioner before us made no claim to conscientious objector status until after he received his induction notice. Before the induction date, he then wrote to his local board and asked to be allowed to present his claim. He represented that his views had matured only after the induction notice had made…
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