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Affirmative Evidence In Draft Classification Of Conscientious Objectors And Ministers Jul 1955

Affirmative Evidence In Draft Classification Of Conscientious Objectors And Ministers

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Administrative Discretion In The Award Of Federal Contracts, Arthur S. Miller Apr 1955

Administrative Discretion In The Award Of Federal Contracts, Arthur S. Miller

Michigan Law Review

For our present purposes, the point to be seen is that while this article is inquiring into the question of choice of contractor, the government is largely in control of the other chief attribute of traditional liberty of contract: the terms and conditions of the contract itself. We may thus summarize a first conclusion in the inquiry under consideration in this manner: the government is under no restraint as to many of the terms and conditions of its contracts and may impose those conditions it deems necessary. These are imposed as a result of a statute (an example of …


International Law - The Abrogation Of Treaties By War, David R. Macdonald S.Ed. Mar 1955

International Law - The Abrogation Of Treaties By War, David R. Macdonald S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

In 1923, the United States and Germany entered into a treaty, one provision of which exempted from taxation the government property of either nation situated in the territory of the other. From the outbreak of World War II in 1941 through 1948 the City and County of San Francisco levied real property taxes on the German Consulate, assuming that this treaty had been abrogated by the outbreak of hostilities between the two nations. The taxes were paid under protest, and the Attorney General, as successor to the Alien Property Custodian, sued and recovered them in the trial court. On appeal, …


Discovery Against The Government Of Military And Other Confidential Matters, Charles R. Gromley Jan 1955

Discovery Against The Government Of Military And Other Confidential Matters, Charles R. Gromley

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Constitutional Law - Self-Incrimination - Relation To Loyalty Discharge From Government Service, George E. Ewing Jan 1955

Constitutional Law - Self-Incrimination - Relation To Loyalty Discharge From Government Service, George E. Ewing

Michigan Law Review

A doctor, drafted into the Army as a private by authority of the Doctors Draft Law, exercised his constitutional privilege against self-incrimination in refusing to complete a loyalty certificate required for a military commission. The Army refused to grant the commission. In a prior habeas corpus proceeding, he had been ordered discharged unless granted the commission. Since the Army intended to grant the discharge under conditions other than honorable, the doctor sought an injunction to compel prompt honorable discharge. Held, injunction granted. Exercise of the constitutional privilege in refusing to complete a loyalty certificate could not be considered a …