The Pentagon is settling a lawsuit with a veterans group that claimed it was illegally withholding records from the public. DoD has agreed to a series of steps that will make past decisions from the boards that handle requests to correct records available on a public website. [more]
Released 1/23/20 | Tags:
The Pentagon will again make public the decisions of the boards responsible for reviewing the dismissals of military personnel seeking to upgrade their discharges or correct their military records. [more]
Released 1/22/20 | Tags:
The military has failed to meet deadlines set by Congress for rulings on veterans' requests to correct records blocking them from receiving benefits, according to a federal class-action lawsuit filed last month. [more]
Released 1/14/20 | Tags:
When the Defense Department pulled down public availability of records from discharge review boards, that raised a lot of hackles among veterans. Now The National Veterans Legal Services Program called the move illegal and has filed a lawsuit. NVLSP Executive Director Bart Stichman joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin in the studio to talk more. [more]
Released 1/14/20 | Tags:
A veterans’ advocacy group is taking legal action in hopes of forcing the government to restore public access to decisions by each of the services’ discharge review boards. Failure to provide access to these records hinders advocates’ efforts to challenge adverse decisions in behalf of their veteran clients, the National Veterans Legal Services Program (NVLSP) contended in a lawsuit filed Jan. 2 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. [more]
Released 1/10/20 | Tags:
A veterans group said the Pentagon has stopped releasing information that helps former service members to contest less-than-honorable discharges from the military. The Defense Department has been breaking the law since April, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday in federal court in Virginia by the National Veterans Legal Services Program. [more]
Released 1/4/20 | Tags:
A veterans group said the Pentagon has stopped releasing information that helps former service members to contest less-than-honorable discharges from the military. The Defense Department has been breaking the law since April, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday in federal court in Virginia by the National Veterans Legal Services Program. [more]
Released 1/3/20 | Tags:
As the top legal arena in the country, the U.S. Supreme Court tends to hog the public’s attention to legal news. But decisions by state courts and federal appellate courts often have an even greater impact on the ways the justice system directly affects people. [more]
Released 12/16/19 | Tags: Class Actions, Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, Veteran's Benefits
Bart Stichman has spent more than 40 years fighting to help veterans get their benefits and could rightfully be cast as one of the founding fathers of the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims. [more]
Released 11/19/19 | Tags: Agent Orange, Class Actions, Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, Veteran's Benefits
A federal court has ruled that the Department of Veterans Affairs wrongly denied reimbursements to veterans who received emergency medical care at non-VA facilities, a decision that could result in payouts to veterans totaling billions. [more]
Released 9/19/19 | Tags: Class Actions, Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, Veteran's Benefits