222 Ga. App. 494 - Jones v. Littlejohn’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions

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1. “Feres is grounded upon three broad rationales. First, the relationship between the government and the members of its armed forces is distinctively federal in character. Second, statutory veterans’ benefits provide an upper limit of liability for the Government as to service-connected injuries. Third, suits by a service member against the government would involve the judiciary in sensitive military affairs at the expense of military discipline and effectiveness. “The doctrine of intra-military immunity is an outgrowth of the third Feres rationale that decries the propriety of civilian courts delving into military matters and calling to bar military decisions and institutions.” (Citations, punctuation and footnotes omitted.) Durant v. Neneman. 9 “Thus, our evolving jurisprudence has created a zone of protection for military actors, immunizing actions and decisions which involved military authority from scrutiny by civilian courts. . . .” Id. at 1353.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Georgia Department of Defense v. Johnson