Litigants: | Witmer v. United States |
Arguedate: | February 1 |
Argueyear: | 1955 |
Decidedate: | March 14 |
Decideyear: | 1955 |
Fullname: | Philip Andrew Witmer v. United States of America |
Usvol: | 348 |
Uspage: | 375 |
Parallelcitations: | 75 S. Ct. 392; 99 L. Ed. 2d 428; 1955 U.S. LEXIS 1078 |
Prior: | United States v. Witmer, 115 F. Supp. 19 (M.D. Pa. 1953); affirmed, 213 F.2d 95 (3d Cir. 1954); cert. granted, . |
Majority: | Clark |
Joinmajority: | Warren, Reed, Frankfurter, Burton, Harlan |
Concurrence: | Minton |
Dissent: | Black |
Joindissent: | Douglas |
Witmer v. United States, 348 U.S. 375 (1955), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States upheld a draft board's rejection of Jehovah's Witness claim of conscientious objector status as lacking sincerity.[1]