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First-of-Its-Kind Challenge to Racial Discrimination in Veterans Benefits Brought by Clinic Moves Forward
April 1, 2024
On March 29, National Vietnam War Veterans Day, a federal judge in Connecticut issued a landmark decision allowing a lawsuit to proceed against the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for racial discrimination in veterans benefits stretching back to World War II. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of Black veterans, seeks damages for the failure of VA leaders to address persistent bias against Black veterans since 1945. The Court’s opinion makes this case one of the few cases seeking to redress historic discrimination to survive a motion to dismiss.
Judge Stefan R. Underhill denied the government’s motion to dismiss Monk v. United States, which claims that the VA has harmed Black veterans for decades by pervasively and systematically subjecting them to a discriminatory benefits system. The government had argued that the court lacked the power to hear the case, brought by Conley Monk Jr., a Vietnam veteran, on behalf of himself and the estate of his father, a World War II veteran, and the National Veterans Council for Legal Redress (NVCLR).
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