Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas voiced disagreement Monday with his colleagues' decision to reject a widow's request that the high court consider whether the federal government owes her for her husband's death.Thomas said that if the justices had taken up the case, it would have been an opportunity to rein in a decades-old precedent that says servicemembers’ families cannot file wrongful death lawsuits against the government if the victim was killed while performing his or her job duties."We should have granted certiorari. Doing so would have provided clarity about [Feres v. United State...
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