Becker v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• addressing due process to which a cadet is entitled when subject to expulsion from the Academy
• “Instilling and maintaining discipline and morale in these young men who will be required to bear weighty responsibility in the face of adversity – at times extreme – is a matter of substantial national importance scarcely within the competence of the judiciary.”
• student not entitled to a lawyer so long as “the government does not proceed through counsel”
• “combination of the functions of policeman and judge” in Merchant Marine disciplinary hearing is not per se unconstitutional
• applicable safeguards depend upon whether hearing as a whole is fair
• expulsion from Merchant Marine Academy

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).