Flora L. Barnett, Claimant-Appellant v. Jesse Brown, Secretary of Veterans Affairs

MICHEL, Circuit Judge.

Flora L. Barnett appeals the April 13,1995 decision of the United States Court of Veterans Appeals (“CVA”), Barnett v. Brown, 8 VetApp. 1 (1995), affirming the September 13, 1993 decision of the Board of Veterans’ Appeals (“Board”) declining to reopen her claim for benefits that may be due a surviving spouse or to further consider its prior determination of no service connection of her husband’s death on the ground that no new and material evidence had been proffered. The appeal was submitted for our decision following oral argument on March 5, 1996. Because the Board…