Full case name Cox v. United States | End date 1947 | |
Citations 332 U.S. 442 (more)68 S. Ct. 115; 92 L. Ed. 59; 1947 U.S. LEXIS 1586 Prior history Certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit. Majority Reed, joined by Jackson, Vinson, Burton, Frankfurter Dissent Douglas, joined by Black Dissent Murphy, joined by Rutledge Ruling court | ||
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.
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."
A rehearing was denied on February 12, 1948.
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