Selective Service v. Minnesota Public Interest Research Group

Appellant

Selective Service System of the United States

Appellee

Minnesota Public Interest Research Group, et al.

Appellant's Claim

That section 12(f) of the Military Selective Service Act did not constitute a bill of attainder or a violation of the Fifth Amendment protection against compelled self-incrimination.

Chief Lawyer for Appellant

Rex E. Lee, U.S. Solicitor General

Chief Lawyer for Appellee

William J. Keppel

Justices for the Court

Warren E. Burger (writing for the Court), Sandra Day O'Connor, Lewis F. Powell, Jr., William H. Rehnquist, John Paul Stevens, Byron R. White

Justices Dissenting

William J. Brennan, Jr., Thurgood Marshall (Harry A. Blackmun did not participate)

Place

Washington, D.C.

Date of Decision

5 July 1984

Decision

That section 12(f) of the Military Selective Service Act, which denied federal financial assistance to male students between the ages of 18 and 26 who had not registered for the draft, constituted neither a bill of attainder nor a violation of appellees' Fifth Amendment privilege against compelled self-incrimination.

Related Cases

• Cummings v. Missouri, 4 Wall. 277 (1867).
• Ex parte Garland, 71 U.S. 333 (1867).
• Garrity v. New Jersey, 385 U.S. 493 (1967).
• Marchetti v. United States, 390 U.S. 39 (1968).
• Lefkowitz v. Turley, 414 U.S. 70 (1973).
• Nixon v. Administrator of General Services, 433 U.S. 425 (1977).

Sources

University of Minnesota Office of Financial Aid. 1998.