military-disability

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A181 George M. Tronsrue, III v. Elsa M. Tronsrue Illinois 2025-08-13 Presumed Complete federal-preemption marital-settlement military-disability state-court-enforcement supremacy-clause veterans-benefits Whether federal law preempts state court enforcement of a marital settlement agreement that requires a veteran to dispossess federally protected disab…
22-297 Kevin Llewellyn McGhee v. United States Federal Circuit 2022-09-28 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-rights combat-related-injury correction-of-records disability due-process federal-claims federal-employee-rights military military-disability Whether a Court and an armed forces board of corrections can invalidate disability laws, disregard a service member's permanent disability combat-rela…
21-1594 Preston L. Drane v. Stephania Drane Florida 2022-06-27 Denied disability-payments divorce-proceedings equitable-distribution expert-testimony military-benefits military-disability pension-division uniformed-services-former-spouses-protection-act uniformed-services-protection-act veterans-benefits Whether a court may disregard military documentation showing that a veteran's payments are for disability and instead rely on expert testimony to conc…
21-6971 Byron Case v. Douglas County, Oregon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-26 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process federal-preemption military-benefits military-disability spousal-support state-court-jurisdiction state-courts supremacy-clause veterans-affairs veterans-rights Whether federal laws 10 U.S.C. § 1408 and 38 U.S.C. § 5301 can be overridden by state laws regarding military veterans' disability income or assets
20-784 Jeffry Schmidt v. Kenneth J. Braithwaite, Secretary of the Navy District of Columbia 2020-12-08 Denied Response Waived administrative-review arbitrary-and-capricious arbitrary-capricious-standard disability-evaluation disability-ratings judicial-notice medical-evidence military-compensation military-disability new-and-material-evidence veterans-affairs veterans-disability Did Federal Circuits refuse to recognize consistent disability ratings between the U.S. Military and Department of Veterans Affairs