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Witmer v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued February 1, 1955 Decided March 14, 1955
Full case name	Philip Andrew Witmer v. United States of America
Citations	348 U.S. 375 (more) 75 S. Ct. 392; 99 L. Ed. 2d 428; 1955 U.S. LEXIS 1078
Case history
Prior	United States v. Witmer, 115 F. Supp. 19 (M.D. Pa. 1953); affirmed, 213 F.2d 95 (3d Cir. 1954); cert. granted, 348 U.S. 812 (1954).
Court membership
Chief Justice Earl Warren Associate Justices Hugo Black · Stanley F. Reed Felix Frankfurter · William O. Douglas Harold H. Burton · Tom C. Clark Sherman Minton
Case opinions
Majority	Clark, joined by Warren, Reed, Frankfurter, Burton, Harlan
Concurrence	Minton
Dissent	Black, joined by Douglas

Witmer v. United States, 348 U.S. 375 (1955), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States upheld a draft board's rejection of Jehovah's Witness claim of conscientious objector status as lacking sincerity.^[1]

• List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 348

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