From the San Jose Mercury News:

A federal judge in San Francisco has cleared the way for a national class-action lawsuit challenging how Department of Veterans Affairs treats Iraq and Afghanistan war casualties with post-traumatic stress disorder.

The federal system for weighing individual veterans’ claims “does not provide an adequate alternative remedy for Plaintiffs’ claims for several reasons,” U.S. District Judge Samuel Conti wrote in a 42-page order rejecting the government’s motion to dismiss three of the lawsuit’s four claims.

The lawsuit, which was filed in July by Berkeley-based Disability Rights Advocates on behalf of Veterans for Common Sense and Veterans United for Truth, claims the VA has violated federal laws and veterans’ civil rights by taking too long to provide mental-health care and disability benefits and, in some cases, denying them completely for PTSD.

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