Legal Opinion
Simmons v. Principi
United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims
Decided June 4, 2003No. 98-354PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STEINBERG, Judge:
The appellant, veteran Richard D. Simmons, through counsel, seeks review of a January 1998 Board of Veterans’ Appeals (Board or BVA) decision that denied as legally insufficient a claim of clear and unmistakable error (CUE) in an April 1977 decision by a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) regional office (RO) that had denied VA service connection for arthritis and a nervous disorder. Record (R.) at 3. The relevant filings of the parties, along with the protracted procedural history of this case, will be detailed below. For the reasons that follow, the Court will vacate the…
2Cases cited46 opinions
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3Cited by23 opinions
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