delinquency power
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 396 U.S. 295 - Gutknecht v. United States · 1970Most cited · 555 citing opinions
Selective Service regulations
The power under the regulations to declare a registrant 'delinquent' has no statutory standard or even guidelines. The power is exercised entirely at the discretion of the local board. It is a broad, roving authority, a type of administrative absolutism not congenial to our law-making traditions.
How often courts cite the case defining “delinquency power”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “delinquency power” — 555 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.