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UNITED STATES EX REL. NORRIS v. NORMAN

No. 69 C 91.

296 F.Supp. 1270 (1969)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Vernon Leon NORRIS, Petitioner, v. Captain R. J. NORMAN, Commanding Officer, Naval Administrative Command, Great Lakes Naval Training Center, Great Lakes, Illinois; John Chafee, Secretary of Navy; Melvin Laird, Secretary of Defense; Great Lakes Naval Training Center, Great Lakes, Illinois; Department of the Navy, Washington, D. C., Respondents.

United States District Court N. D. Illinois, E. D.

March 12, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard J. Nussbaum, Sonnenschein, Levinson, Carlin, Nath & Rosenthal, Chicago, Ill., for petitioner.

Thomas A. Foran, U. S. Atty., Eugene Robinson, Asst. U. S. Atty., Chicago, Ill., Peter F. Vaira, Asst. Atty. Gen., Department of Justice, Washington, D. C., for respondents.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

PARSONS, District Judge.

Vernon Leon Norris, claiming indigency and appearing pro se, filed his petition in this Court for issuance of a writ of habeas corpus ordering the appropriate United States Navy authorities to release him from their custody. In due course, respondents, by the United States Attorney, filed a return. The issue is whether petitioner is a member of the United States Navy. The return to the petition questioned...

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