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COHEN v. LAIRD

No. 14866.

439 F.2d 866 (1971)

Robert Jay COHEN, Stephen M. Gaydos, Calvin Clay Greene, III, Jose F. L. Medina, and Francisco Rivera Pomales, Appellants, v. Melvin LAIRD, Secretary of Defense, Stanley R. Resor, Secretary of the Army; and Major General James F. Hollingsworth, Commanding General of Fort Jackson, South Carolina, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided March 19, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James A. Long, IV, Charlotte, N. C. (Jack McGuinn, Columbia, S. C., James A. Rebholz, and Melvin Wulf, New York City, on the brief), for appellants.

Joseph O. Rogers, Jr., U. S. Atty., and Charles W. Gambrell, Asst. U. S. Atty., for appellees.

Before BOREMAN, BRYAN and CRAVEN, Circuit Judges.

BOREMAN, Circuit Judge:

I

The members of this panel are in agreement that there was a basis in fact for denial of the applications for discharge of Cohen, Gaydos and Medina-Figueroa as conscientious objectors. Upon a review of the record, the briefs and oral arguments of counsel, we affirm the denial of relief as to these appellants named above upon the opinion of the district court, as reported in Cohen v. Laird, 315 F.Supp. 1265

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