Veteran With Burn Pit-Related Illnesses Will Get His Day in Supreme Court
Vets
By Hannah Ray Lambert | December 15, 2021
The Supreme Court of the United States agreed Wednesday, Dec. 15, to hear the case of a former Texas state trooper who said he had been forced to resign after returning from a deployment in Iraq too sick to patrol as a result of exposure to burn pits.
SCOTUS will have to decide whether the state of Texas violated the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA), which prohibits employers from firing or demoting Reserve or National Guard members who have to leave their civilian jobs to train or deploy.
Army Reserve Capt. Le Roy Torres left his long-time job as a trooper with the Texas Department of Public Safety in 2007 to deploy to Iraq, according to court documents. Once there, Torres remembers watching a 10-acre plot of land full of burning garbage near the soldiers’ sleeping quarters at Balad Air Base, according to Texas Public Radio.
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