Legal Opinion
L IZZIE K. M AY FIELD v. R. James Nicholson
United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims
Decided April 14, 2005No. 02-1077PublishedCited by 97 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STEINBERG, Judge:
Lizzie K. Mayfield (the appellant), the surviving spouse of deceased veteran Es-tey Mayfield, seeks, through counsel, review of a May 23, 2002, decision of the Board of Veterans’ Appeals (BVA or Board) that denied her claim for Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) service connection for the cause of her husband’s death. Record (R.) at 1-11. The parties each filed briefs, and on March 23, 2004, the Court, by single-judge order, ordered the May 2002 BVA decision vacated and the matter remanded in order for VA to comply with the regulatory requirement in 38 C.F.R. § 3.159(b)(1)…
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