Musser v. United States

In Ehlert v. United States, 402 U. S. 99 (1971), the Court decided that the Selective Service System may place special hurdles on conscientious objector claims first raised after a notice of induction has been issued. In allowing the Selective Service to set what it termed reasonable “timeliness” regulations, the Court assumed that the conscientious objector claims not considered by the local board would receive full consideration by the military after induction. Id., at 107. “[I]f . . . a situation should arise in which neither the local board nor the military had made available a full…