Legal Opinion
National Organization of Veterans' Advocates, Inc. v. Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided May 14, 2003No. 02-7346PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GAJARSA, Circuit Judge.
National Organization of Veterans’ Advocates, Inc. (“NOVA”) petitions for review of a Department of Veterans Affairs (“VA”) regulation, 38 C.F.R. § 3.304(f) (2002), providing that evidence other than the veteran’s service records may be sufficient to establish the occurrence of a stres-sor in claims for service connection of post-traumatic stress disorder (“PTSD”) resulting from personal assault. NOVA challenges the regulation under 38 U.S.C. § 502 as arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, and not in accordance with statutory provisions, 38 U.S.C. §§ 1154(a) and…
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