Legal Opinion
Rodriguez v. Peake
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided January 7, 2008No. 2006-7023PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KEELEY, Chief District Judge.
James B. Peake, M.D., Secretary of Veterans Affairs (“the Secretary”), appeals from a decision of the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (‘Veterans Court”), permitting a survivor of a deceased veteran to proceed with a claim for dependency and indemnity compensation (“DIC”). Rodriguez v. Nicholson, 19 Vet.App. 275 (2005). That decision overturned a ruling by the Board of Veterans’ Appeals (“the Board”) and held that application of 38 C.F.R. § 3.22, as amended in January 2000, to a DIC claim pending prior to the amendment, took away a substantial…
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