Grubaugh Law previously wrote about the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). A provision in the 2021 NDAA included Bladder Cancer, Hypothyroidism, and Parkinsonism to the list of diseases presumptively connected to Agent Orange exposure an…
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The Senate overrode President Trump’s veto of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) yesterday. Combined with the House’s earlier veto override, the bill is now law. The NDAA contains good news for Vietnam era veterans, with a prov…
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I sometimes blog over at Global Military Justice Reform Blog. I wrote one this morning about a settlement out of the U.S. District Court in Connecticut, between the Army and veterans with bad-paper discharges.
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On August 18, 2020, the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (CAVC) decided Lacey v. Wilkie, 2020 U.S. App. Vet. Claims LEXIS 1565, finding the Government’s litigation position in Lacey v. Wilkie, 32 Vet. App. 71 (2019), unreasonable. In the first…
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The Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (CAVC) issued its opinion in Wolfe v. Wilkie, No. 17-0519 on August 31, 2020. CAVC’s decision is a reminder that attorneys must sweat the details, even during the VA adjudication process, which is ostensibly…
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So this is an article I wrote for the Connecticut Lawyer, the magazine for Connecticut’s Bar Association. The article is about Veteran Treatment Courts (VTCs). VTCs are diversionary courts, much like drug treatment courts, but to use a VTC an indiv…
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