Legal Opinion
Grell v. Trump
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided September 12, 2018No. Case No. 17-cv-939 (CRC)PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CHRISTOPHER R. COOPER, United States District Judge
As the nation ponders current political controversies, this case evokes one from the past: the Reagan Administration's covert effort to undermine Nicaragua's Sandinista government in the 1980s. Pro se *314plaintiff Richard Grell is a U.S. Army veteran who was deployed to Central America in the 1980s and objects to how the government categorizes the missions in which he served. Grell insists that he engaged in combat operations in aid of an undeclared war in Nicaragua, while the military classifies his service as mere training and war games…
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