Noyd v. McNamara, No. 9440.
| Court | United States Courts of Appeals. United States Court of Appeals (10th Circuit) |
| Writing for the Court | PER CURIAM |
| Citation | 378 F.2d 538 |
| Parties | Captain Dale E. NOYD, FR 28084, Appellant, v. Honorable Robert S. McNAMARA, Secretary of Defense, Honorable Harold W. Brown, Secretary of the Air Force, General John P. McConnell, Chief of Staff, United States Air Force, Lieutenant General Thomas S. Moorman, Superintendent, United States Air Force Academy, Major General G. B. Greene, Jr., Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff/Personnel for Military Personnel, United States Air Force, Lieutenant General Lewis B. Hershey, National Director, Selective Service System, Colonel John E. Horne, Deputy Chief of Staff, Personnel, United States Air Force Academy, Colonel Henry E. Wojdyla, Head, Department of Psychology and Leadership, United States Air Force Academy, Brigadier General Robert McDermott, Dean of Faculty, United States Air Force Academy, Appellees. |
| Decision Date | 16 May 1967 |
| Docket Number | No. 9440. |
378 F.2d 538 (1967)
Captain Dale E. NOYD, FR 28084, Appellant,
v.
Honorable Robert S. McNAMARA, Secretary of Defense, Honorable Harold W. Brown, Secretary of the Air Force, General John P. McConnell, Chief of Staff, United States Air Force, Lieutenant General Thomas S. Moorman, Superintendent, United States Air Force Academy, Major General G. B. Greene, Jr., Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff/Personnel for Military Personnel, United States Air Force, Lieutenant General Lewis B. Hershey, National Director, Selective Service System, Colonel John E. Horne, Deputy Chief of Staff, Personnel, United States Air Force Academy, Colonel Henry E. Wojdyla, Head, Department of Psychology and Leadership, United States Air Force Academy, Brigadier General Robert McDermott, Dean of Faculty, United States Air Force Academy, Appellees.
No. 9440.
United States Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit.
May 16, 1967.
Marvin M. Karpatkin, New York City, (John de J. Pemberton, Jr., Rochester, Minn., American Civil Liberties Union, William F. Reynard, Denver, Colo., Norman Dorsen, and Ernest Angell, Melvin L. Wulf, Eleanor H. Norton and Rhoda H. Karpatkin, New York City, of counsel, were with him on the brief), for appellant.
C. Westbrook Murphy, Dept. of Justice (Barefoot Sanders, Asst. Atty. Gen., Lawrence M. Henry, U. S. Atty., Morton Hollander and Harland F. Leathers, Dept. of Justice, were with him on the brief), for appellees.
Before LEWIS, BREITENSTEIN and HICKEY, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM.
This appeal is taken from a judgment of the District Court for the District of Colorado denying to appellant declaratory and injunctive relief and relief by writ of mandamus or habeas corpus in appellant's efforts to establish his present status as a conscientious objector and require the United States Air Force to assign him to duty consistent with appellant's subjective conscience or to accept his resignation as a commissioned officer. Appellant has served as a regularly commissioned officer for over eleven years and his sincerity in advancing his present contentions is not questioned for the purposes of this case. In brief summary, appellant asserts that since the initiation of his voluntary military service he has become a conscientious objector to wars of aggression, particularly to the Vietnam conflict, that he is about to be assigned duty inconsistent with his conscience in such regard, that he has exhausted his administrative remedies, and that, absent judicial...
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