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DONIGIAN v. LAIRD

Civ. A. No. 20884.

308 F.Supp. 449 (1969)

Lt. Douglas W. DONIGIAN v. Hon. Melvin LAIRD, Secretary of Defense, Lt. Gen. Jonathan O. Seaman, Commander of the 1st U. S. Army, Hon. Stanley Resor, Secretary of the Army; Col. John H. Hoffman, Commander, United States Army Reserve, Components Personnel Center.

United States District Court D. Maryland.

December 15, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elsbeth Levy Bothe, Baltimore, Md., and Gaillard T. Hunt, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff.

Stephen H. Sachs, U. S. Atty., and Alan I. Baron, Asst. U. S. Atty., Baltimore, Md., for defendants.

NORTHROP, District Judge.

Lieutenant Douglas W. Donigian has brought a petition for habeas corpus in this court challenging the refusal of the Army to discharge him as a conscientious objector. The defendants answered, claiming that this court lacks jurisdiction, that the plaintiff has failed to exhaust his administrative remedies, and that on the merits, there was a basis in fact for the defendants' action in refusing to grant such a discharge. These contentions...

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