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· 1/18/1960

McElroy v. United States Ex Rel. Guagliardo

Citations

  • 361 U.S. 281
  • 80 S. Ct. 305
  • 4 L. Ed. 2d 282
  • 1960 U.S. LEXIS 1744

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that court- martial cannot try civilian employees of overseas military forces
  • noting that the “least possible power” test is confined to the context in which it arose — -a court-martial of a civilian
  • civilian employee accompanying an armed force to a foreign country; held insufficient to subject him to court-martial jurisdiction, as provided by. Article 2(10), UCMJ, 10 U.S.C. § 802(10)
  • private military contractor lacked “military status” and so could not be court-martialed
  • civilian military employee in noncapital case
  • civilian military employee in noncapital case

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Clark, Harlan, Frankfurter, Whittaker, Stewart

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