Rogelio C. Gomez v. Robert A. McDonald

ORDER

Before the Court is the issue of whether the appellant’s August 15, 2014, Notice of Appeal (NOA) of a June 18, 2013, Board of Veterans’ Appeals (Board) decision is timely, including whether a July 9, 2013, motion that he filed with the Board, and which the Board then forwarded to a VA regional office (RO), abated the finality of the June 2013 Board decision. For the reasons that follow, the Court determines that the finality of the June 2013 Board decision was abated until the Board determined in October 2014, after the appellant filed his August 2014 NOA, that his July 2013 submission…