Supreme Court· 6/15/1970

Welsh v. United States

Citations

398 U.S. 333
90 S. Ct. 1792
26 L. Ed. 2d 308
1970 U.S. LEXIS 23

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United States v. Welsh — U.S. Supreme Court case. This entry links to the full opinion in the CourtListener corpus.

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recognizing that an ob- jection to the statutory military conscription requirement need only be “based in part” upon religion to be considered “religious”
holding that failure to raise claims in state appellate proceeding barred 27 federal habeas review unless petitioner demonstrated cause and prejudice
recognizing that an objection to the statutory military conscription requirement need only be 'based in part' upon religion to be considered 'religious'
recognizing that an ob- jection to the statutory military conscription requirement need only be “based in part” upon religion to be considered “religious”
recognizing that an ob- jection to the statutory military conscription requirement need only be “based in part” upon religion to be considered “religious”
holding that a contentious objection to the Vietnam War was religiously based despite Welsh's initial statement that his objection to the war was not religious in nature

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