Valasco v. West

I concur in the result but not the Court’s analysis.

In my view, this ease turns on whether the appellant filed a timely Notice of Disagreement (NOD) as to the apparent October 22, 1985, denial by a then-Veterans’ Administration (now Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)) regional office (RO) of her claim to reopen the VARO’s June 1979 final denial of her claim for dependency and indemnity compensation (DIC) benefits based on her husband’s death. If she did in fact file a timely NOD, then I could not find that the Court now has jurisdiction over the current appeal. That is because, as a matter…