UNITED STATES v. SISSON

No. 305.

399 U.S. 267 (1970)

UNITED STATES v. SISSON.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 29, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Solicitor General Griswold argued the cause for the United States. With him on the brief were Assistant Attorney General Wilson, Francis X. Beytagh, Jr., Beatrice Rosenberg, and Roger A. Pauley.

John G. S. Flym argued the cause and filed a brief for appellee.

Briefs of amici curiae were filed by William G. Smith for the Los Angeles Selective Service Law Panel; by Norman Leonard for the Lawyers' Selective Service Panel of San Francisco; by Joseph B. Robison for the American Jewish Congress; by Samuel Rabinove and George Berlstein for the American Jewish Committee; by Herman Schwartz, Marvin M. Karpatkin, and Melvin L. Wulf for the American Humanist Assn. et al.; by Leo Rosen, Edward S. Greenbaum, and Nancy F. Wechsler for the American Ethical Union, and by Frank P. Slaninger, pro se.


MR. JUSTICE HARLAN delivered the opinion of the Court.*

The Government seeks to appeal to this Court a decision by a District Court in Massachusetts holding that appellee Sisson could not be criminally convicted for refusing induction into the Armed Forces. The District Court's opinion was bottomed on what that court understood to be Sisson's rights of conscience as a nonreligious objector to...

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