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Clinic Lawsuit Challenges VA Denial of Gender-Affirming Surgery
The Veterans Legal Services Clinic represents the Transgender American Veterans Association in a second federal lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, challenging VA’s denial of TAVA’s 2016 rulemaking petition requesting gender-affirming surgery.
First-of-Its-Kind Challenge to Racial Discrimination in Veterans Benefits Brought by Clinic Moves Forward
A federal judge 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 Yale Law School Veterans Legal Services Clinic helps represent the plaintiffs.