Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Ass'n v. McDonald

GRIFFITH, Circuit Judge:

Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Association and Military-Veterans Advocacy appeal the district court’s dismissal of their complaint for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. Because Congress stripped the district court of jurisdiction over their claims, we affirm.

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In the 1960s and early 1970s, the United States used an herbicide known as Agent Orange to clear heavily forested areas in Vietnam. See S. Rep. No. 100-439, at 64 (1988). Concerns about the long-term health effects of exposure to Agent Orange led Congress to pass the Agent Orange Act of 1991, Pub. L. No.…