Elgin v. United States

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

DOUGLAS P. WOODLOCK, District Judge.

The Military Selective Service Act (the “MSSA”), 50 App. U.S.C. §§ 451-473, requires that men register with the Selective Service System between the ages of eighteen and twenty-six. 50 App. U.S.C. § 453(a). A separate federal statute, 5 U.S.C. § 3328(a)(2), provides that men who knowingly and willfully fail to register under the MSSA are ineligible for employment by a federal executive agency. The four Plaintiffs in this suit seek to maintain employment with the federal government. They were barred from doing so because they failed to…