Estep v. United States

Me: Justice Douglas

delivered the opinion of the Court.

In Falbo v. United States, 320 U. S. 549, we held that in a criminal prosecution under § 11 of the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 (54 Stat. 894, 50 U. S. C. App. § 311) a registrant could not defend on the ground that he was wrongfully classified and was entitled to a statutory exemption, where the offense was a failure to report for induction into the armed forces or for work of national importance.1 We found no provision for judicial *116review of a registrant’s classification prior to the time when he had taken all the steps in…