In July 2007, Attorneys at Morrison & Foerster LLP filed an unprecedented national class action lawsuit alleging “shameful failures” by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and other government institutions to care for those veterans who have returned from Iraq and Afghanistan and are now suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Read more…
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U.S. Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin introduced, on November 7, 2007, the Women Veterans Health Care Improvement Act, a bill to expand and improve VA health care services for women who have served, particularly those who served in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom (OIF/OEF). The bill has been referred to the House Armed Services. Read more…
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U.S. Senators Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) and Barack Obama (D-Ill.) have introduced legislation to improve access to services for the thousands of veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan who are increasingly struggling with combat-related mental health disorders. Read more…
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For more than a half-century, the convictions of 28 African-American soldiers for a riot that ended in the lynching of an Italian prisoner of war at Seattle�s Fort Lawton during World War II has held an uneasy place in history. It was the Army’s largest court-martial of the war, and it was one of the region’s worst conflicts between Blacks and whites. On October 26th, 2007 the Army review board tossed out the convictions after finding the trial was “fundamentally unfair.” Read more…
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The Veterans’ Entrepreneurship Task Force (formerly Task Force) was organized in early 1999 to advocate for the development and passage of Public Law 106-50, the Veterans’ Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development Act of 1999. With this act, Congress recognized the United States must provide additional assistance to veterans, particularly service-disabled veterans, with forming and expanding their own small businesses, thereby assisting them to realize the American dream they fought so hard to protect. Read more…
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