Legal Opinion
Hansen-Sorensen v. Wilkie
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided December 11, 2018No. 2017-2418PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
Taranto, Circuit Judge.
Curtis L. Hansen served in the Army National Guard for six years, which included, at the start of the service in 1959, a period of 182 days of active duty for training. Mr. Hansen died from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in 1998. A decade later, in May 2009, his widow, appellant Myrna Hansen-Sorensen, applied to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, the head of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), for benefits under 38 U.S.C. § 1310 (a), which provides that "[w]hen any veteran dies after December 31, 1956, from a service-connected or compensable disability, the…
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