Legal Opinion
Larsen v. US Navy
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided April 29, 2008No. 07-5196PublishedCited by 126 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the court filed by Circuit Judge TATEL.
Opinion concurring in part and concurring in the judgment filed by Senior Circuit Judge WILLIAMS.
TATEL, Circuit Judge:
In this case, three applicants to the Navy Chaplain Corps allege that the Navy maintained a religious quota system for choosing chaplains and that under this system the Navy illegally refused to hire them because they are non-liturgical Protestants. But because the Navy has long since eliminated the challenged policy, plaintiffs’ challenge is moot.
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To become a Navy chaplain, a person applies to the Chaplain Accession and…
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