feres-doctrine

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-1078 Kari Beck, Personal Representative of the Estate of Cameron Gayle Beck, et al. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-04-16 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7) circuit-split federal-tort-claims-act feres-doctrine military-service negligence-claims servicemember-rights Whether the Feres doctrine's bar against servicemembers' tort claims is limited to injuries directly caused by military duties or should be narrowed/o…
24A351 Energetic Tank, Inc., as Owner of the M/V Alnic MC v. United States, et al. Second Circuit 2024-10-15 Presumed Complete counterclaim feres-doctrine maritime-law public-vessels-act sovereign-immunity suits-in-admiralty-act Whether the Feres doctrine improperly bars a maritime counterclaim against the United States when the government has already filed an affirmative dama…
23-1281 Ryan G. Carter, et al. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-06-07 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7) federal-tort-claims-act feres-doctrine judicial-precedent medical-malpractice military-medical-malpractice military-service-members service-member-rights sovereign-immunity tort-claims Should the Feres doctrine be limited and not bar tort claims brought by service members alleging medical malpractice where the service member was unde…
21-1410 Carol V. Clendening, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Gary J. Clendening v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-05-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) camp-lejeune discretionary-function-exception federal-tort-claims-act feres-doctrine feres-v-united-states judge-advocate-general military-tort-claims standing-law toxic-exposure Does Feres v. United States apply to an unwitting Judge Advocate General Officer's toxic exposure not related to his service
21-1290 Joseph Ferrari v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-24 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process federal-courts federal-tort-claims-act feres-doctrine immunity intentional-misconduct scope-of-employment Is lying by a US employee to undermine the boss outside the scope of employment and therefore prevents US substitution into a suit for the liar and th…
20-559 Jane Doe v. United States Second Circuit 2020-10-29 Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) circuit-split federal-tort-claims-act feres-doctrine military-service service-academy sexual-assault sexual-harassment sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation Was Feres wrongly decided and should it be overruled?
20-35 Joshua E. Frankel v. United States, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-07-16 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process federal-courts feres-doctrine fourth-circuit incident-to-service insurance-law military-tort separation-of-powers sovereign-immunity Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in applying an unduly restrictive 'situs and status test' for the determination of whether the acts at issue were 'in…
19-913 Ghazala Siddiqui, et vir, Individually and as Personal Representatives of the Estate of Raheel Siddiqui, Deceased v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied Response Waived civilian-claims civilian-rights federal-tort-claims-act feres-doctrine military-discrimination military-nexus military-recruit pre-enlistment-negligence tort-claims Does the Feres doctrine bar civilians and the estates of military recruits from bringing tort claims under the Federal Torts Claims Act for wrongful a…
19-690 Tina Neville v. Janet Dhillon, Chair, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-11-29 Denied Relisted (2) 32-U.S.C.-§-709 civil-rights conflict-of-interest dual-status-technician due-process eeoc EEOC-access feres-doctrine incident-to-service military-civilian-employment military-function national-guard title-vii workplace workplace-discrimination Whether the Feres Doctrine invalidates Title VI remedies for workplace discrimination experienced by a dual-status technician while performing civilia…
19-224 Bryan James Strother v. David S. Baldwin, Adjutant General, California Army National Guard, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-08-20 Denied Relisted (2) accrued-benefits civil-rights contractual-entitlements due-process federal-tort-claims-act federal-torts-claim-act feres-doctrine military-benefits military-pay military-pay-and-bonuses property-rights repetition-evading-review vested-property-interests vested-property-rights Whether accrued military pay and bonuses are vested property entitlements or unilateral gratuities
18-9532 Lemuel Clayton Bray v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-06-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection feres-doctrine military-compensation retaliation sovereign-immunity veterans-affairs veterans-rights Are U.S. War Veterans and active duty military separate and unequal citizens under the Constitution?
18-981 Theresa Jones, et al. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-29 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure federal-tort-claims-act feres-doctrine government-liability legislative-intent military-negligence military-service-members negligence servicemember-rights standing tort-action Should the Feres doctrine be revisited and limited to the legislative purpose underlining the Federal Tort Claims Act, such that a negligence action f…
18-460 Walter Daniel, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Rebekah Daniel v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7) federal-tort-claims-act feres-doctrine medical-malpractice military-discipline military-exigencies service-member service-members stare-decisis statutory-interpretation Does the Feres doctrine bar service members, or their estates, from bringing claims for medical malpractice under the Federal Tort Claims Act where th…