Clay v. United States
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clay-v-united-states-165-6171673
title:
Clay v. United States
text:
Clay v. United States, 403 U.S. 698 (1971), was Muhammad Ali's appeal of his conviction in 1967 for refusing to report for induction into the United States military forces during the Vietnam War. His local draft board had rejected his application for conscientious objector classification. In a unanimous 8–0 ruling, the United States Supreme Court reversed the conviction that had been upheld by the Fifth Circuit. The Supreme Court found the government had failed to properly specify why Ali's appl
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1971 United States Supreme Court case
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_v._United_States
date created:
2007-04-30T15:24:17Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T19:16:25Z
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