The Supreme Court has allowed a former state trooper to sue Texas over his claim that he was forced out of his job when he returned from Army service in Iraq....
that he was forced out of his job when he returned from Army service in Iraq.that was enacted in 1994 in the wake of the Persian Gulf war to strengthen job protections for returning service members.
By a 5-4 vote, the high court rejected Texas’ claim that it is shielded from such lawsuits. “Text, history, and precedent show that the States, in coming together to form a Union, agreed to sacrifice their sovereign immunity for the good of the common defense,” Justice Stephen Breyer wrote for the court.He spent a year in Iraq and was discharged as a captain after nearly 19 years in the U.S. Army Reserve.
The state and Torres dispute what happened when he returned to Texas, unable to resume his job as a state trooper because of. He eventually resigned and later filed his lawsuit. A state appellate court dismissed it, and the justices stepped in. Congress first allowed returning service members to sue states to keep their jobs in 1974, recognizing discrimination because of opposition to the Vietnam War. to take account of sailors’ vaccination status in deciding on deployments, narrowing a lower court order. Three justices, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas, dissented from the high court’s order.
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