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News stories on involuntary military service
NCFM PRESS RELEASE: WE WON! The National Coalition For Men (NCFM) is pleased with the court’s decision in NCFM v. Selective Service. Forcing only males to register is an aspect of socially institutionalized male disposability and helps reinforce the stereotypes that support discrimination against men in other areas such as child custody, divorce, criminal...
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PJ Media BY TONI AIRAKSINEN SEPTEMBER 13, 2018 CHAT 189 COMMENTS The nation’s oldest men’s group has filed an unprecedented lawsuit against the Selective Service System (SSS), alleging that the military draft amounts to “discrimination against males” and “unconstitutional” treatment of young men. The lawsuit, filed by California lawyer Marc Angelucci, challenges the SSS’s policy of requiring that...
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“Equality” means sharing the benefits and the burdens of citizenship. NCFM NOTE: Inexplicably the US Attorney General is fighting this case with what appears to be little or no concern for equal treatment under the law, even though the Department of Defense leans toward our position. This case is in its fifth year. We speculate there...
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Good news! The Texas federal district court just sided with NCFM and denied the Selective Services’ Motion to Dismiss NCFM v. Selective Service, in which NCFM is challenging the constitutionality of the requirement that only men, but not women, must register for the draft. To recap: NCFM initially filed the case in CA to...
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Update on our suit against the Selective Service for their refusal to require women to sign up for the draft. 170815 Selective Service TX court approves adding plaintiff denies transfer Update on our suit against the Selective Service for their refusal to require women to sign up for the draft.
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Will women have to register for the draft? Republicans say no Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Kayla Cerda, a drill Instructor, commands a recruit to run in place during a function in Van Nuys, Calif., on March 12, 2016. House and Senate lawmakers are deeply divided over requiring women between 18-25 years old to register...
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The National Coalition For Men (NCFM) is pleased to announce that on 2/19/16, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal reversed the lower Federal District Court’s dismissal of NCFM’s and James Lesmeister’s lawsuit that challenges the constitutionality of the male-only Selective Service registration requirement. The District Court had dismissed the case on the ground that...
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NCFM NOTE: Below is NCFM’s opposition to the Selective Service System’s motion to dismiss our lawsuit to stop the horrific gender discrimination within the Selective Service System. Once laws were repealed preventing women from holding combat positions in the military they became “similarly situated” as men. Hence, all legal prohibitions requiring women to register...
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Phyllis Schlafly is best known as the dragon-slayer of the Equal Rights Amendment. Unfortunately, the failure of the ERA facilitated radical feminists infiltrating almost every nook and cranny of our institutions with no counterbalance for men. Had the ERA passed, there’s a good chance preferential treatment based on group identity would have rapidly gone...
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PRESS RELEASE Contact: Marc Angelucci, Esq., NCFM Vice President, marcangelucci@hotmail.com 626-319-3081 Or, Steven Svoboda, Esq., NCFM PR Director, arc@post.harvard.edu 925-395-2065 NATIONAL COALITION FOR MEN SUES SELECTIVE SERVICE FOR REQUIRING ONLY MEN TO REGISTER FOR THE DRAFT Lawsuit Asserts Department of Defense’s Recent Repeal of Ban on Women in Combat...
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