Legal Opinion · Concurring in part, dissenting in part

Nicholas Ribaudo v. R. James Nicholson

United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims

Decided April 13, 2007No. 06-2762Published

1Concurring in part, dissenting in partSchoelen, Judge

I respectfully dissent from part II of the Court’s order because I believe the Secretary has not met his burden of establishing that a stay of the precedential effect of the Court’s decision in Haas v. Nicholson, 20 Vet.App. 257 (2006), appeal docketed, No.2007-7037 (Fed.Cir. Nov.8, 2006), or that a stay of cases related to Haas pending before VA is warranted.4 I do not believe that the Court has properly applied the four-factor test from Standard Havens Products, Inc. v. Gencor Industries, Inc., 897 F.2d 511 (Fed.Cir.1990), which we decided to follow in both Ribaudo v. Nicholson, 20 Vet.App.…

2Cases cited15 opinions

  1. Hilton v. BraunskillSupreme Court of the United States · 1987
  2. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Commission v. Holiday Tours, Inc.Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1977
  3. Roland MacHinery Company v. Dresser Industries, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1984
  4. Standard Havens Products, Inc. v. Gencor Industries, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit · 1990
  5. 32 soc.sec.rep.ser. 494, unempl.ins.rep. Cch 15908a Esther Marcus v. Louis v. Sullivan, M.D., Secretary of Health and Human ServicesCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1991

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