Cox_v._United_States_(1947)

<i>Cox v. United States</i> (1947)

Cox v. United States (1947)

1947 United States Supreme Court case

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]

Quick Facts Cox v. United States, Argued October 14–15, 1947 Decided November 24, 1947 ...
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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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    Cox v. United States, 332 U.S. 442 (1947).
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