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Form 150, however, asks for a yes-or-no answer to the question "Do you believe in a Supreme Being?", posing quite a problem for the claimant who does not believe in a traditional God. Several Harvard CO's checked neither yes nor no and skipped to the next question. which mercifully allows a full exposition of an individual's beliefs with respect to a Supreme Being and the reasons which prevent him from participating in war. This is the approach which Seeger used. It will be upheld by appeal boards and in the courts, but most local boards, unaware...
...clearly qualifies for the exemption. Where such beliefs have parallel positions in the lives of their respective holders we cannot say that one is 'in a relation to a Supreme Being' and the other is not." In effect, almost any strongly held belief can qualify as religious, provided the claimant does not explicitly deny a religious basis for his objection by stating that he does not belief...
...local board, on evaluation of a claimant's answers to Form 150, decides he does not deserve CO status, the claimant may opt for a hearing with the board to present his case in person. At the hearing, the board subjects claimants to a cross-examination which is often hostile. If the local board still refuses to classify him I-O, the claimant may take his case to the state appeal board. This entails an FBI investigation of his background and a hearing with a Department of Justice Hearing Officer. On the basis of the hearing the Department of Justice...
Every board member reviews about ten cases a week, paying particular attention to the victim's own degree of responsibility in the crime. A dissatisfied claimant can appeal to the other five board members and get a closed hearing. So far, only 8% have done so. Conversely, no victim has yet successfully sued a criminal, in which case the board would get its money back...
...prison. Now a grey-haired, unemployed man of 57, Dennison understandably sued New York for $500,000 in damages. Last week the Court of Claims awarded him $115,000-freely admitting, in Judge' Heller's words, that "no sum of money would be adequate to compensate the claimant for the injuries he suffered and the scars which he obviously bears...