Leleux v. United States

CARL E. STEWART, Circuit Judge:

In this appeal from the district court’s grant of the Government’s motion to dismiss, we confront an unseemly subject. Notwithstanding the need for good order and discipline in the country’s armed forces, and strict military rules designed to prevent such an occurrence, an enlisted petty officer in the United States Navy seduced a young recruit in Lafayette, Louisiana. As a result of their sexual encounters, the recruit, Plaintiff-Appellant Catherine E. Leleux (“Leleux”), contracted genital herpes, an incurable virus. Seeking relief for the damages inflicted…