Court Opinion

ID: 9479063
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 07:07:06.921813+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:46:48.160809
License: Public Domain

CANBY, Circuit Judge,
concurring:
I concur wholeheartedly in Judge Preger-son's majority opinion. My concurrence indicates no retreat, however, from my conviction that the Army’s discrimination against Watkins because of his homosexual orientation denies him equal protection of the laws. I joined Judge Norris’ eloquent opinion so holding in Watkins II, and I agree with everything Judge Norris says today on the equal protection point. Because we are en banc, and the constitutional issue is a recurring one, I think I may appropriately reach it even though equitable estoppel may dispose of the case.