Robin E. Persons Estate of Kelly Persons and Timothy Persons v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• observing that our Feres “jurisprudence has been guided by an increasing sense of awe for things military”
• observing that our Feres “jurisprudence has been guided by an increasing sense of awe for things military”
• “Seemingly manacled by precedent, this Circuit has repeatedly expressed its strong reservations [about the Feres doctrine] before ultimately overcoming them.”
• affirming dismissal of a loss of consortium claim under Feres and noting the near-unanimous view among the circuits that “derivative” claims are barred by Feres
• “[Pjractically any suit that ‘implicates the military judgments and decisions,’ runs the risk of colliding with Feres.”
• barring wrongful death action because decedent died incident to service

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).