High Court Justices Decline To Review Veteran’s Plutonium Exposure Class Dispute

(June 20, 2023, 1:28 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on June 20 denied a petition for a writ of certiorari by a veteran who alleges that his leukopenia was caused by exposure to radioactive plutonium while he was serving in the Air Force in the mid-1960s and argued that the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals erred when it held that the Veterans Court lacked the jurisdiction to certify in a single class veterans with both exhausted and unexhausted claims....