September 28, 2020
A Kansas federal judge heard Monday on the first day of a remote trial that a former Marine was sexually assaulted by a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs medical staffer who was supposed to help the ex-soldier with his wartime trauma and addiction, not cause more.
April 11, 2017
A Kansas federal judge on Monday dismissed a negligent hiring claim against the federal government in a $2.5 million suit accusing a former Veterans Affairs physician's assistant of sexual assault, and also said the patient can't assert a medical negligence claim that the assistant overprescribed pain medication.
February 24, 2017
A Kansas federal judge on Friday trimmed a negligent hiring claim asserted against the federal government in a suit accusing a former Veterans Affairs physician's assistant of sexual assault, saying the alleged assailant's conduct was not shaped by federal law or policy.
February 16, 2017
A Kansas federal judge on Wednesday rejected the federal government's assertion of sovereign immunity in a suit accusing a former Veterans Affairs physician's assistant of sexual assault, saying it was too early to rule on whether the man was acting in a medical capacity during the alleged assaults.
February 09, 2017
A Kansas federal judge on Tuesday consolidated 15 similar suits, all accusing a former physician's assistant at two U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals of sexual assault during medical examinations, ruling that combining the cases would speed discovery and allowed the veterans to depose their alleged assailant.