Cox v. United States (1947)

Cox v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued October 14–15, 1947 Decided November 24, 1947
Full case name	Cox v. United States
Citations	332 U.S. 442 (more) 68 S. Ct. 115; 92 L. Ed. 59; 1947 U.S. LEXIS 1586
Case history
Prior	Certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit.
Court membership
Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson Associate Justices Hugo Black · Stanley F. Reed Felix Frankfurter · William O. Douglas Frank Murphy · Robert H. Jackson Wiley B. Rutledge · Harold H. Burton
Case opinions
Majority	Reed, joined by Vinson, Frankfurter, Jackson, Burton
Dissent	Douglas, joined by Black
Dissent	Murphy, joined by Rutledge

Cox v. United States, 332 U.S. 442 (1947), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States found that courts have only limited scope of review over a Selective Service Board's classification of a Jehovah's Witness as a conscientious objector rather than a minister.

Justice Reed delivered the opinion. Justice Murphy, in dissent said "the mere fact that they spent less than full time in ministerial activities affords no reasonable basis for implying a non-ministerial status."

A rehearing was denied on February 12, 1948.

See also

• Conscientious objection in the United States
• List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 332
• Mora v. McNamara

External links

• Text of Cox v. United States, 332 U.S. 442 (1947) is available from: CourtListener Google Scholar Justia Library of Congress