American Military News by Sarah Rahal 2/1/2020
A Taylor couple’s lawsuit is headed to the Supreme Court in the case of their son, a 20-year-old Marine who died during boot camp in South Carolina less than two weeks after he arrived.
The parents of Raheel Siddiqui sued the Marine Corps in 2017, alleging he was assaulted, hazed, tortured and discriminated against at the training depot on Parris Island, South Carolina, because of his Muslim faith.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. 6th Circut Court of Appeals dismissed the $100 million wrongful death suit against the military in August 2019.
The court said the suit is barred under the often-criticized Feres doctrine, which relegates claims related to injuries of active-duty military personnel to the military and not the civil courts. Lawyers now are asking if Feres should be overruled in the case of alleged negligence that began before Siddiqui enlisted.
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