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FONT v. LAIRD

Civ. No. 70-716H.

318 F.Supp. 891 (1970)

Lieutenant Louis P. FONT, Petitioner, v. Melvin LAIRD, Secretary of Defense; Stanley R. Resor, Secretary of the Army; Lt. General Jonathan O. Seaman, Commanding General, First United States Army, Fort George G. Meade, Maryland, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Maryland.

July 24, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marvin M. Karpatkin and Karpatkin, Ohrenstein & Karpatkin, Rhoda H. Karpatkin, Michael N. Pollet, Melvin L. Wulf, New York City, and Elsbeth Levy Bothe, William Zinman, Baltimore, Md., for petitioner.

George Beall, U. S. Atty., and Francis S. Brocato, Asst. U. S. Atty., Baltimore, Md., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

HARVEY, District Judge:

Petitioner, a First Lieutenant in the United States Army, is presently assigned to the Office of the Adjutant General, Division of Military Personnel Affairs at Fort Meade, Maryland. In this habeas corpus proceeding, he maintains that he is entitled to be discharged from the Army as a conscientious objector under applicable Army regulations and under various provisions of the United States Constitution.

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