DACOSTA v. LAIRD

No. 71-833.

405 U.S. 979 (1972)

DACOSTA v. LAIRD, SECRETARY OF DEFENSE, ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

March 6, 1972.


Certiorari denied. MR. JUSTICE BRENNAN is of the opinion that certiorari should be granted.

MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS, dissenting.

Once again, this Court is confronted with a challenge to the constitutionality of the presidential war which has raged in Southeast Asia for nearly a decade.1 Once again, it denies certiorari. Once again, I dissent.

I have expressed at length my view that the constitutional questions raised by conscription...

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