Shinseki, Secretary of Veterans Affairs v. Sanders
Supreme Court of the United States
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Breyer
In these two civil cases, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) denied veterans’ claims for disability benefits. In both cases the VA erroneously failed to provide the veteran with a certain kind of statutorily required notice. See 38 U. S. C. § 5103(a). In both cases the VA argued that the error was harmless. And in both cases the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, after setting forth a framework for determining whether a notice error is harmless, rejected the VA’s argument.
In our view, the Federal Circuit’s “harmless-error” framework is too complex and rigid, its presumptions…
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