Selective Draft Law Cases
Significance, A "supreme And Noble Duty", Further Readings
Appellants
Joseph F. Arver, et al.
Appellee
United States of America
Appellants' Claim
That the Selective Draft Act of 1917 violated Article I, Section 8 and the First and Thirteenth Amendments, among other provisions of the Constitution.
Chief Lawyers for Appellants
T. E. Latimer, Edwin T. Taliferro, Harry Weinberger
Chief Lawyer for Appellee
John W. Davis, Solicitor General
Justices for the Court
Louis D. Brandeis, John Hessin Clarke, William Rufus Day, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Joseph McKenna, James Clark McReynolds, Mahlon Pitney, Willis Van Devanter, Edward Douglass White (writing for the Court)
Justices Dissenting
None
Place
Washington, D.C.
Date of Decision
7 January 1918
Decision
Denied the appellants' claim.
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- United States v. O'Brien, 391 U.S. 367 (1968).
- Clay v. United States, 403 U.S. 698 (1971).
- Rostker v. Goldberg, 453 U.S. 57 (1981).
- Selective Service System v. Minnesota Public Interest Research Group, 468 U.S. 841 (1984).
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