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FEDERAL TORTS CLAIMS ACT: Feres Doctrine Cracked? Opening of Pandora's Box or Further Encasement in Stone?

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2013) ("We can think of no other judicially-created doctrine which has been criticized so stridently, by so many jurists, for so long [as the Feres doctrine]."). In Justice Scalia's mind, the text of ยง 2680(j) clearly showed Congress's intent to limit the waiver exception. Justice Scalia continued his disgust with this doctrine in Ritchie v.

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