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Draft Boards Suppressed Free Speech Court Rules
A US Court of Appeals ruled that two local draft boards suppressed free speech by cancelling deferments of University of Michigan students who protested against the Selective Service system and U.S. policy in Vietnam. The decision returns the case to a federal judge after finding the students did not become delinquent. The authors involved are Peter Wolff and Richard Shortt, who demonstrated outside an Ann Arbor draft board on October 15, 1965.
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New York
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University of Michigan
U.S
Vietnam
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Peter Wolff
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Richard Shortt
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Wolff and Shortt