Brief of Amicus Curiae John Marshall Law School Veterans Legal Support Center & Clinic in Support of Petitioner, Ortiz v. United States Docket No. 15-488 (2015)
Abstract
The Clinic filed an amicus brief in the United States Supreme Court supporting the plaintiff’s petition for writ of certiorari. The petition seeks a review of an Eleventh Circuit decision extending the Feres doctrine to bar a birth injury suit on behalf of the injured child of a military mother. Under the Eleventh Circuit analysis, a birth injury claim by the child of a military mother is barred, but a birth injury claim of the child of a military father would not be barred. Over a dozen other veterans clinics and clinical professors joined our brief.
This paper has been withdrawn.