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)

Michael P. Seng, UIC School of Law

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.