Supreme Court to Hear Case of Reservist Pushed Out of Police Job over Burn Pit-Related Illness
15 Dec 2021
Military.com | By Patricia Kime
The U.S. Supreme Court will consider the case of a former Army Reserve officer and Texas state trooper who says he was forced to resign after returning from Iraq disabled by exposure to burn pits.
The high court announced Wednesday it will hear LeRoy Torres v. the Texas Department of Public Safety, which claims that the state violated a law designed to protect troops from discrimination over serving in the U.S. armed forces.
Torres, an Army Reserve captain, deployed in 2007 to Joint Base Balad, Iraq, where he lived and worked near a 10-acre open-air burn pit used for waste incineration.
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