Cox v. United States (1947)

Cox v. United States, 332 U.S. 442 (1947), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States found that courts have only limited scope of review over a Selective Service Board's classification of a Jehovah's Witness as a conscientious objector rather than a minister.[1]

Cox v. United States
Argued October 14–15, 1947
Decided November 24, 1947
Full case nameCox v. United States
Citations332 U.S. 442 (more)
68 S. Ct. 115; 92 L. Ed. 59; 1947 U.S. LEXIS 1586
Case history
PriorCertiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit.
Court membership
Chief Justice
Fred M. Vinson
Associate Justices
Hugo Black · Stanley F. Reed
Felix Frankfurter · William O. Douglas
Frank Murphy · Robert H. Jackson
Wiley B. Rutledge · Harold H. Burton
Case opinions
MajorityReed, joined by Vinson, Frankfurter, Jackson, Burton
DissentDouglas, joined by Black
DissentMurphy, joined by Rutledge

Justice Reed delivered the opinion. Justice Murphy, in dissent said "the mere fact that they spent less than full time in ministerial activities affords no reasonable basis for implying a non-ministerial status."[1]

A rehearing was denied on February 12, 1948.[1]

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References

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  1. ^ a b c Cox v. United States, 332 U.S. 442 (1947).
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