· 7/26/1989
Gary W. Kendrick Shane Kendrick, a Minor Child v. United States of America, (Two Cases)
Citations
- 877 F.2d 1201
How courts have described this case
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- noting the disruptive effect on military discipline of permitting a tort suit against the military by a “service member . . . later returned to active duty.”
- medical treatment held incident to service even though soldier was on Army’s Temporary Disability Retirement List.
- “The limits imposed by Feres are equally applicable when the claims of a family member are derivative to the service member’s cause of action under the applicable state law.”
- servicemember’s claim that attending military physicians negligently continued to prescribe Dilantin, a drug to address the servicemember’s seizure disorder, without properly monitoring the level of medication in his blood Feres-barred
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Judges: Chapman, Wilkinson, Doumar, Eastern, Virginia
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