''Mora v. McNamara'', 389 U.S. 934 (1967), is a case in which the

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was asked to rule on the case of a

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(a member of the

Fort Hood Three The Fort Hood Three were three soldiers of the US Army – Private First Class James Johnson, Jr. Private David A. Samas, and Private Dennis Mora – who refused to be deployed to Vietnam on June 30, 1966. This was the first public re ...

) who claimed that the U.S. war against Vietnam was an illegal war of aggression. In this case, the court cited only the Kellogg-Briand Pact, Article 39 of the

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and the

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(which established the

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) as the relevant body of international law regarding cases of war. Certiorari was denied over the dissents of Justices Stewart and

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