In a groundbreaking ruling, the Washington D.C.-based U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims has certified a class of nearly 1,600 elderly disabled American veterans exposed to ionizing radiation while cleaning up a nuclear bomb disaster in Palomares, Spain, in 1966.

The Dec. 6 decision in Victor Skaar v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs marks the first time the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims has certified a class on direct appeal against the Department of Veterans Affairs.

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