Case Name: Holmes v. United States
Court: Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1968-05-27
Citations: 391 U.S. 936
Docket Number: No. 1072
Parties: Holmes v. United States.
Judges: 
Reporter: United States Reports
Volume: 391
Pages: 936–949

Head Matter:
No. 1072.
Holmes v. United States.
Kenneth S. Jacobs for petitioner.
Solicitor General Griswold, Assistant Attorney General Vinson, and Beatrice Rosenberg for the United States.

Opinion:
C. A. 7th Cir. Certiorari denied.
Memorandum of
Mr. Justice Stewart.
This case, like Hart v. United States, No. 1044, Misc., post, p. 956, involves the power of Congress, when no war has been declared, to enact a law providing for a limited period of compulsory military training and service, with an alternative of compulsory domestic civilian service under certain circumstances. It does not involve the power, in the absence of a declaration of war, to compel military service in armed international conflict overseas. If the latter question were presented, I would join Mr. Justice Douglas in voting to grant the writ of certiorari.