Gene S. Groves v. Robert A. McDonald

ORDER

In the context of the instant January 24, 2014, petition for extraordinary relief in the nature of a writ of mandamus, the question before the Court concerns the petitioner’s request for sanctions based on the Secretary’s failure to correct an error of the Board of Veterans’ Appeals (Board) in characterizing this Court’s March 2012 remand decision as an affirmance in its database, despite numerous letters from the petitioner raising the error. This ultimately resulted in the Secretary’s failure to expeditiously handle the Court’s remand order as required by 38 U.S.C. §§ 5109B and 7112.…