NEZ PERCE TRIBE OF INDIANS ET AL.

v.

SEATON, SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR

Citator

Cited By

• Julita David Robertson v. United States, 417 F.2d 440 (5th Cir. 1969)
  …and classify Robertson accordingly. The law then can take whatever is its appropriate course. Therefore, I respectfully dissent. . See the statement of Judge Wisdom for this court in Wiggins v. United States, 261 F. 2d 113 (5th Cir.) cert. denied, 359 U.S. 942, 79 S.Ct. 723, 3 L.Ed.2d 676 (1959), referring to the Jehovah’s Witnesses who correspond to ministers in a conventional organized religion and received no salaries and must engage in secular work to earn sufficient funds to carry on their religious…
• Matyastik v. United States, 392 F.2d 657 (5th Cir. 1968)
  …on, teach and preach the principles of religion and administer the ordinances of public worship as embodied in the creed or principles of his church, sect, or organization.” . “In Wiggins v. United States, 261 F. 2d 113 (5 Cir. 1958), cert. denied, 359 U.S. 942, 79 S.Ct. 723, 3 L.Ed.2d 676 (1959), the court pointed out that the amount of time spent in religious activity was not conclusive. There the court found that the undisputed evidence would support the conclusion that Wiggins had shown ‘that he stood…
• United States v. Tichenor, 403 F.2d 986 (6th Cir. 1968)
  …he Jehovah’s Witnesses sect must be certified as a “Pioneer” by his congregation in order to qualify as a “regular or duly ordained minister.”3 Almost conclusive in this regard is Wiggins v. United States, 261 F. 2d 113 (5th Cir.1958), cert. denied, 359 U.S. 942, 79 S.Ct. 723, 3 L.Ed.2d 676 (1959), reh. denied, 359 U.S. 976, 79 S.Ct. 874, 3 L.Ed.2d 843 (1959), in which it was held that there was no basis in fact for the denial of a IV-D classification to a Jehovah’s Witness who, like appellant in the presen…