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Legal Citation: 245 U.S. 366 (1918)

Appellants
Joseph F. Arver, et al.

Appellee
United States of America

Appellants' Claim
That the Selective Draft Act of 1917 violated Article I, Section 8 and the First and Thirteenth Amendments, among other provisions of the Constitution.

Chief Lawyers for Appellants
T. E. Latimer, Edwin T. Taliferro, Harry Weinberger

Chief Lawyer for Appellee
John W. Davis, Solicitor General

Justices for the Court
Louis D. Brandeis, John Hessin Clarke, William Rufus Day, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Joseph McKenna, James Clark McReynolds, Mahlon Pitney, Willis Van Devanter, Edward Douglass White (writing for the Court)

Justices Dissenting
None

Place
Washington, D.C.

Date of Decision
7 January 1918

Decision
Denied the appellants' claim.