Opinion

Arthur Paul Watkins and Genesee Lime Products Company, Inc. v. Phillip Rupert, Chairman, Local Draft Board No. 76, Selective Service System

  • 224 F.2d 47
  • 1955 U.S. App. LEXIS 4048
Court
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Filed
Jun 22, 1955
Status
Published
On the bench
Clark, Chase, Ryan
Cited by
12 cases
Authority
More cited than 89.3%

The opinion

PER CURIAM.

The district court was clearly correct in refusing to give plaintiffs the relief they seek at this time. Judicial intervention in the selective service selection system — in any ease drastically limited, 50 U.S.C.Appendix, § 460(b)— must await the exhaustion by the registrant of all administrative remedies. The exact point at which such remedies have been fully utilized may not always be easy to ascertain, but no judicial review has ever been held appropriate- before the registrant has responded, either affirmatively or negatively, to the order of induction. Falbo v. United States, 320 U.S. 549 , 64 S.Ct. 346 , 88 L.Ed. 305 ; Estep v. United States, 327 U.S. 114 , 66 S.Ct. 423 , 90 L.Ed. 567 ; Witmer v. United States, 348 U.S. 375 , 75 S.Ct. 392 . Certainly no adequate showing of danger of irreparable harm, prerequisite to any kind of injunctive relief, can be made so long as the registrant has not decided whether or not to-obey the induction order and before the government has decided whether or not to prosecute if he decides not to report. And if plaintiff 'Wátkins is unwilling to' run the gamut of criminal prosecution, he can test the legality of his induction after he has submitted to it by suing out a writ of habeas corpus..

The- judgment is affirmed; and the plaintiffs’ motion for intermediate relief, including additional time to perfect their appeal and stay of ’induction, is denied.

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