Stella v. SELECTIVE SERVICE SYS. OF US OF A., LOC. BD. NO. 66
| Decision Date | 08 June 1970 |
| Docket Number | Docket 34825.,No. 846,846 |
| Citation | 427 F.2d 887 |
| Parties | Kenneth R. STELLA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM OF the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, LOCAL BOARD NO. 66, Defendant-Appellee. |
| Court | U.S. Court of Appeals — Second Circuit |
David B. Lubash, Jamaica, N. Y., for plaintiff-appellant.
Edward R. Neaher, U. S. Atty., Eastern Dist. of New York (Lloyd H. Baker, Asst. U. S. Atty., on the brief), for defendant-appellee.
Before SMITH and HAYS, Circuit Judges, and TENNEY, District Judge.*
This appeal from an order of the District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Judd, J.), denying plaintiff-appellant's application for a preliminary injunction, presents for review the issue of whether Section 10(b)(3) of the Military Selective Service Act of 1967, 50 U.S.C.App. § 460(b)(3), deprives the District Court of jurisdiction of the within action. Tangentially presented for review is whether the "lottery system" which became effective January 1, 1970, pursuant to Executive Order No. 11497, 34 Fed.Reg. 19019 (1969), is applicable to a registrant who received an induction order prior to January 1, but who, at his own request, had his induction postponed until after January 1.
The relevant facts, which are not in dispute, reveal the following.
Having been classified 1A, appellant was originally ordered to report for induction in October 1969. At his request, this induction was postponed several times until April 21, 1970, when he was ultimately ordered to report for induction.
Appellant, who reached his 26th birthday in February of this year and is thus entitled to lottery number 212, contends that his induction should now be controlled by the present lottery system. The Government has acknowledged that appellant is being inducted under the pre-lottery system of selection, which system was in existence prior to January 1, 1970. There is also no dispute that under present law appellant would not yet be subject to induction since his birth date corresponds to a lottery number not yet reached in the order of call.
Appellant, contending that he was being illegally inducted into the Armed Forces, commenced an action in the Eastern District for a permanent injunction enjoining such induction. Pending trial of his action, an application for a stay of induction was made to Judge Judd of that court.
By order dated April 22, 1970, Judge Judd dismissed the action without prejudice to the bringing of a habeas corpus proceeding after induction. It was further ordered that appellant's induction be stayed one week in order to permit him to apply to this court for a stay of induction pending appeal. On April 27 of this year, we granted appellant's motion for an indefinite stay of induction pending final determination of the appeal.
Section 10(b) (3) of the Military Selective Service Act of 1967, in pertinent part, provides that "no judicial review shall be made of the classification or processing of any registrant by local boards, appeal boards, or the President, except as a defense to a criminal prosecution * * * after the respondent has responded either affirmatively or negatively to an order to report for induction. * * *"
The Supreme Court, however, has recently cautioned against an overly literal application of this statute. Breen v. Selective Service Board, 396 U.S. 460, 462, 90 S.Ct. 661, 24 L.Ed.2d 653 (1970); Oestereich v. Selective Service Board, 393 U.S. 233, 238, 89 S.Ct. 414, 21 L.Ed.2d 402 (1968).
In Oestereich, supra at 238, 89 S.Ct. at 416, the Court held that the District Court had jurisdiction to determine whether there was a "clear departure by the Board from its statutory mandate," and that it would be unnecessarily harsh to construe Section 10(b) (3) so as to require a registrant to either refuse induction or wait until after he is inducted to challenge a "blatantly lawless" deprivation of a statutory exemption to which that registrant is allegedly entitled.
Similarly, in Breen,supra, 396 U.S. at 467-468, ...
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