El-Amin v. U.S. Veterans Administration

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

ALLEN SHARP, Chief Judge.

Plaintiff Mutee El-amin, proceeding pro se, filed this complaint as a Bivens action 1 and under the Federal Tort Claims Act (the “FTCA”), as well as numerous other federal statutes. He sues defendants U.S. Veterans Administration (the “V.A.”) and adjudication officer Fred Rathgeber (jointly the “government”), and state defendant Dr. McClure, alleging violations of his Fifth Amendment rights when they denied his claim for service-connected disability compensation for post-traumatic stress disorder (“PTSD”) from his service in Vietnam. The government…