Legal Opinion
Smith v. Obama
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided November 21, 2016No. Civil Action No. 2016-0843PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, United States District Judge
Plaintiff is a U.S. Army Captain who was deployed, until recently, to the Kuwait headquarters of the Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve. Operation Inherent Resolve is the designation the U.S. Department of Defense has given to the military campaign against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (“ISIL”) 1 initiated by the United States and its allies in 2014. Plaintiff considers the operation to be a “good war” and “what [he] signed up to be part of when [he] joined the military.” Nonetheless, Plaintiff…
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