Knowles v. Shinseki

LINN, Circuit Judge.

Monika M. Knowles (“Knowles”) seeks review of a decision of the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (“Veterans Court”) affirming-in-part and vacating-in-part a decision of the Board of Veterans’ Appeals (“Board”). Knowles v. Peake, No. 06-1996, 2008 WL 1043148 (Vet.App. Mar. 31, 2008) (“Decision”). Because the Veterans Court correctly held that Knowles’s finality claim was an impermissible freestanding challenge to the finality of a prior regional office (“RO”) decision, we affirm the decision of the Veterans Court.

I. BACKGROUND

Knowles was discharged from…