KANAI v. McHUGH

No. 10-6086.

638 F.3d 251 (2011)

Steven Lang KANAI, Petitioner-Appellee, v. John M. McHUGH, Secretary of the Army, Respondent-Appellant. American Civil Liberties Union Foundation; American Friends Service Committee; Center on Conscience and War; American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland, Incorporated, Amici Supporting, Petitioner.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: March 4, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Joshua Paul Waldman , United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Appellant. Daniel Bernard Abrahams , Brown Rudnick, LLP, Washington, D.C., for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Tony West , Assistant Attorney General, Anthony J. Steinmeyer , United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; Rod J. Rosenstein , United States Attorney, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellant. Howard A. Wolf-Rodda , Brown Rudnick, LLP, Washington, D.C., for Appellee. Ward B. Coe III , Gallagher Evelius & Jones LLP, Baltimore, Maryland; Deborah A. Jeon , American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland; Vera M. Scanlon , Beldock Levine & Hoffman LLP, New York, New York; Deborah H. Karpatkin , New York, New York; Daniel Mach , American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Washington, D.C., for Amici Curiae American Civil Liberties Union Foundation and American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland. J.E. McNeil , Daniel O'Connor , Center on Conscience & War, Washington, D.C., for Amici Curiae American Friends Service Committee and Center on Conscience and War.

Reversed and remanded by published opinion. Judge KEENAN wrote the opinion, in which Judge NIEMEYER and Judge DUNCAN joined.


OPINION

KEENAN, Circuit Judge:

Steven L. Kanai, a cadet in his final year at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York (West Point), sought discharge from the United States Army (the Army) as a conscientious objector.1 The Department of the Army Conscientious Objector Board (the Army Board) denied Kanai's application for discharge, finding that Kanai had not demonstrated sincerely-held views entitling him to...

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