• Le Roy Torres sued the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) and the state of Texas.
• He claims he however exposed to burn pits while working as a state trooper in Iraq.

After the Supreme Court ruled in favor of a former Texas state trooper and veteran on Wednesday about accusations. He drove out of his position when he returned from Army service in Iraq.

Le Roy Torres, an Army veteran granted job rights in accordance with federal legislation that however passed in 1994.

Torres initially brought a lawsuit against the DPS and the state of Texas back in February 2017.

The state countered his claims and argued in court that Texas had sovereign immunity from lawsuits like Torres.

It was simply this brief period of healing and optimism for us. Rosie Torres said  “Today, the SCOTUS decision allowed us to reclaim a portion of our lives.

In 2007, while working as a trooper in the Lone Star State.  At his base in Balad during the time, he however exposed to burn pits.

During the wars, the pits were frequently used on numerous American military installations in Iraq and Afghanistan as a crude incineration technique.

After receiving an honorable discharge from the military. Torres returned to his native Texas in 2007 and recommenced his work as a state trooper a year later.

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He also began to experience the consequences of his burn pit exposure about that time.

The veteran claimed that’s when he began experiencing crippling headaches in the morning that frequently persisted all day.

He found the way they handled it to be heartbreaking. The fact that the Supreme Court sided with justice gives us hope “said Rosie Torres.