DETENBER v. TURNAGE

No. 82-1786.

701 F.2d 233 (1983)

Benjamin DETENBER et al., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. Thomas K. TURNAGE, Director of the Selective Service System, et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided March 11, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mitchell Benjoya, with whom Jeffrey A. Denner, and Denner & Benjoya, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for appellants.

Al J. Daniel, Jr., with whom J. Paul McGrath, Asst. Atty. Gen., Washington, D.C., William F. Weld, U. S. Atty., Boston, Mass., William Kanter, and Mark H. Gallant, Attys., Appellate Staff, Civ. Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., were on brief, for appellees.

Before ALDRICH, BOWNES and BREYER, Circuit Judges.


BREYER, Circuit Judge.

Appellants, a class of eighteen, nineteen, and twenty year old men, ask this court to hold that the current draft registration program is unconstitutional. See 50 U.S.C. App. § 453; Presidential Proclamation No. 4771, July 2, 1980. Their "sex discrimination" claim having been rejected by the Supreme Court, Rostker v. Goldberg, 453 U.S. 57, 101 S.Ct. 2646, 69 L.Ed.2d 478 (1981), they now argue...

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