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· 2/12/1953

Acheson, Secretary of State v. Maenza

Citations

  • 202 F.2d 453
  • 92 U.S. App. D.C. 85
  • 1953 U.S. App. LEXIS 3257

How courts have described this case

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  • “Duress cannot be inferred from the mere fact of conscription- [Tjhere must be consideration of the circumstances attending the service in the foreign country, and the reasonable inferences to be drawn therefrom.”
  • “Duress cannot be inferred from the mere fact of conscription. . . . [T]here must be consideration of the circumstances attending the service in the foreign country, and the reasonable inferences to be drawn therefrom.”
  • “The additional factors of actual, in fact, duress and 16 coercion at the time of the conscription, on the one hand and of a free exercise of the will and of the mind, on the other, must bear heavily on the eventual answer.”

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Judges: Clark, Miller, Proctor

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