Jeffery A. Wells v. Anthony J. Principi

I voted for the appellant’s motion for initial en banc consideration of this case in order for the full Court to address issues of exceptional importance raised by the appellant (in the brief he submitted in October 2003) regarding the effect of section 401 of the Veterans Benefits Act of 2002 (VBA), Pub.L. No. 107-330, § 401, 116 Stat. 2820, 2832, and especially for the full Court to examine collectively the Court’s decisions in Gilbert v. Derwinski, 1 Vet.App. 49 (1990), Roberson v. Principi, 17 Vet.App. 135 (2003) (Roberson III), and Mariano v. Principi, 17 Vet.App. 305 (2003), in light of…