Charles Ellis Talley v. Department of Veterans Affairs

Whether 38 U.S.C. § 511(a) strips federal district courts of jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1331 to hear a veteran's standalone constitutional tort action, thereby creating an unconstitutional remedial gap where retrospective monetary damages for civil rights violations can neither be sought in an Article III court nor awarded by the specialized veterans' administrative tribunal.

Whether an executive agency's intentional evasion of a nondiscretionary congressional mandate under Section 2 of Public Law 95- 126 constitutes a reviewable ultra vires action that falls outside the preclusive scope of 38 U.S.C. § 511(a).