High Profile Litigation
Professor Rotunda has become involved in high profile legal issues and litigation stemming from the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars. In 2003, she was a lawyer assigned to Private Jessica Lynch after Lynch's rescue in Iraq.
In December 2011, Rotunda took on the U.S. Air Force for its illegal termination of 157 Air Force Officers on the eve of retirement. On December 28, 2011, Rotunda exposed the Air Force in a Wall Street Journal op-ed entitled The Air Force Grounds Its Officers, stating, "This holiday season, the Air Force has 'separated' (that is, fired) 157 officers on the eve of their retirement, including pilots flying dangerous missions, to avoid paying their pensions." She goes on to urges Congress to enact a law that would provide pro-rated retirement to these 157 officers and comments, "America's heroes have our backs. Who has theirs?"
In January 2012, Rotunda announced that Congressman Denny Rehbert (Montana-R) had introduced the ' 'Keep America's Promises Act' ' which would provide a pro-rated retirement for the unlawfully terminated airmen.
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