Legal Opinion
Lewis Hodge, Claimant-Appellant v. Togo D. West, Jr., Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided September 16, 1998No. 98-7017PublishedCited by 218 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MICHEL, Circuit Judge.
In this appeal, we are asked to examine the legal test adopted from social security benefits ease law and applied by the United States Court of Veterans Appeals in reviewing determinations as to whether proffered evidence is sufficiently “new and material” such that a veteran’s claim for service-connected disability benefits must be reopened. We must ascertain whether that legal test is consistent with the controlling statutory and regulatory schemes set in place by Congress and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (the “Secretary”), respectively, and particularly the…
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3Cited by218 opinions
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