WOLFF v. SELECTIVE SERVICE LOCAL BOARD NO. 16

No. 213, Docket 30783.

372 F.2d 817 (1967)

Peter WOLFF and Richard Shortt, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. SELECTIVE SERVICE LOCAL BOARD NO. 16, Selective Service Local Board No. 66, and Col. Paul Akst, individually and as Director of the New York City Headquarters Selective Service System, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided January 30, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Layton, New York City (Ralph Fine and Alan H. Levine, New York City, on the brief), for plaintiffs-appellants.

Ezra H. Friedman, Asst. U. S. Atty., New York City (Arthur S. Olick, Asst. U. S. Atty., and Robert M. Morgenthau, U. S. Atty., for Southern Dist. of New York, New York City, on the brief), for defendants-appellees.

Before MEDINA, FRIENDLY and SMITH, Circuit Judges.


MEDINA, Circuit Judge:

Peter Wolff and Richard Shortt, registrants of Selective Service Boards No. 66 in Queens County and No. 16 in New York County were classified II-S because of their status as full-time students at the University of Michigan. On October 15, 1965 these students and others participated in a demonstration to protest American involvement in Vietnam, at the offices of a Selective Service local board in Ann Arbor, Michigan. At the request of the New...

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