Court Opinion

ID: 9460399
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 21:49:06.094488+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:36:35.993746
License: Public Domain

FIELD, Circuit Judge
(dissenting):
At a time when the burgeoning caseload of the federal courts is a matter of deep concern it is incredible, and to me a disturbing commentary, that a United States Court of Appeals would be called upon to address itself to something so trifling as the alleged unconstitutional dimensions of a “Wig Regulation” of a branch of the armed forces. The plain answer to this case, of course, is that no one “shanghaied” these “week-end warriors” into the Reserve. They elected to enlist in the Reserve and receive the advantages of its program and knew, or should have known, that they would be subject to a variety of military regulations some of which might impinge upon their personal tastes. Having made their election they are in no position to complain of a regulation that is neither unreasonable nor lacking in rationality.1
I think the federal judiciary would be well advised to heed the admonition of Mr. Justice Jackson in Orloff v. Wil-loughby, 345 U.S. 83, 94, 73 S.Ct. 534, 540, 97 L.Ed. 842 (1953) :
“The military constitutes a specialized community governed by a separate discipline from that of the civilian. Orderly government requires that the judiciary be as scrupulous not to interfere with legitimate Army matters as the Army must be scrupulous not to interfere in judicial matters.”
The district court should have dismissed this frivolous piece of litigation out-of-hand. I would reverse.

. See Anderson v. Laird, 437 F.2d 912, 915 (7 Cir. 1971) ; Raderman v. Kaine, 411 F.2d 1102, 1106 (2 Cir. 1969).