United States Supreme Court Petition Filed to Challenge Authority of States to Contradict Veterans Administration Determination on Divisibility of Disability Benefits

United States Supreme Court Petition Filed to Challenge Authority of States to Contradict Veterans Administration Determination on Divisibility of Disability Benefits

by | Apr 23, 2021 | Boots on the Ground, Cases, Cases on Appeal, Current Events, Current Trinity Advocate Cases, Legal Advocacy, Military Benefits, Military Law, Petitions in the United States Supreme Court, Veterans Disability Benefits

On Friday, April 23, 2021, Lex Fori PLLC and Attorney Carson J. Tucker filed a pro bono petition in the United States Supreme Court challenging the State of Michigan’s decision to take a veteran’s permanent and total disabilty pay despite the fact that the...
LEX FORI PLLC Files Petition in United States Supreme Court to Force Georgia to Reconsider Its Refusal to Recognize Military Servicemember’s Home of Record in Suit to Vindicate Constitutional Rights

LEX FORI PLLC Files Petition in United States Supreme Court to Force Georgia to Reconsider Its Refusal to Recognize Military Servicemember’s Home of Record in Suit to Vindicate Constitutional Rights

by | Apr 16, 2021 | Boots on the Ground, Cases, Cases on Appeal, Current Events, Current Trinity Advocate Cases, Legal Advocacy, Military Law, Petitions in the United States Supreme Court, Uncategorized, United States Supreme Court Cases

Supreme Court Attorney Carson J. Tucker of Lex Fori PLLC filed a petition in the United States Supreme Court seeking to overturn Georgia’s dismissal of a military servicemember’s suit in the county of his official “home of record”, even though...
LEX FORI PLLC Files Petition in United States Supreme Court to Force Georgia to Reconsider Its Refusal to Recognize Military Servicemember’s Home of Record in Suit to Vindicate Constitutional Rights

Supreme Court to Consider Whether Military Servicemembers Can Sue for Injuries Incurred “Incident to Service” Arising Out of Sexual Assault at a Military Academy – Is the Intra-Military Immunity “Feres Doctrine” in Danger of Being Overruled?

by | Feb 24, 2021 | Boots on the Ground, Cases, Cases on Appeal, Current Events, Military Benefits, Military Injury Claims, Military Tort Claims

The United States Supreme Court is poised to consider several lawsuits concerning the extent and nature of governmental immunity.  As it relates to military service, the Court will consider whether the intra-military immunity doctrine established by the Court in Feres...
Trinity Advocates Representatives Testify in State Legislature for State Law Banning Use of VA Disability Pay as “Income” in State Court Domestic Proceedings

Trinity Advocates Representatives Testify in State Legislature for State Law Banning Use of VA Disability Pay as “Income” in State Court Domestic Proceedings

by | Feb 11, 2021 | Boots on the Ground, Current Events, Veterans Disability Benefits

On February 3, 2021, Carson J. Tucker of Lex Fori PLLC testified before New Hampshire’s legislative committee on amendment to state statutes that unlawfully count veterans’ disability compensation as “income” for purposes of domestic...
Veterans Day Decision for Ray Foster in Restitution Full Circle 38 USC 5301

Veterans Day Decision for Ray Foster in Restitution Full Circle 38 USC 5301

by | Nov 13, 2020 | Boots on the Ground, Cases, Cases on Appeal, Current Events, Current Trinity Advocate Cases, Historical Cases, Veterans Disability Benefits

In a case originally appealed by Carson J. Tucker and Lex Fori PLLC in 2014, the trial court on remand from the Supreme Court today issued an opinion and order of restitution awarding Ray J. Foster $72,000 for the money he was forced to pay over to his former spouse...

Boots on the Ground – Published State Supreme Court Decision Protects Veterans’ Disability Pay from Being Misappropriated by State Courts

by | Oct 28, 2020 | Boots on the Ground, Cases, Cases on Appeal, Current Events, Current Trinity Advocate Cases, Veterans Disability Benefits

Foster v. Foster, 505 Mich. 151, 949 N.W.2d 102 (2020) – This case was released at the end of April, but on October 26, 2020 we received the official notice of its publication in the national reporter. A unanimous decision in favor of our client (after two Court...