Category Archives: BvA and VARO CUE DECISIONS

OPEN DISSENTION AT THE BVA

I received this email over a month ago via a fellow litigator. I didn’t publish it then because it was still undisseminated information. Since then, it has been openly shared and discussed. Having met and befriended several VLJs who always … Continue reading

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R1–DO YOU BELIEVE IN MAGIC

Sometimes I feel as if I’ve been gifted a VA faery wand whereby I can just wave it and pumpkins turn into coaches and mice to steeds. Wait. Hold that. Wrong faerytale. Perhaps,  a truckload of silver iodide and a … Continue reading

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PLANNING AHEAD FOR CUE

I often preach about CUE as the hardest thing to win. It can be challenging and dicey to eke out a win. Here’s a daisy. My Bluewater Vet got a rotten 19 year Fenderson look back. I knew he would. … Continue reading

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BVA–RAPID TURNOVER OF STAFF ATTORNEYS BODES ILL FOR VETS

My good friend Vicki sent me a link the other day that really rolled my socks down. I was mortified to think how this impacts the backlog at the BVA for docketing our appeals. Mind you, I take some of … Continue reading

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CAVC–THREATT V. McDONALD-SLOW! EQUITABLE TOLL AHEAD.

Here we have almost the perfect triumvirate of Judges aligned like the stars and one has to spoil it with a bogus “I concur but I’m butthurt about Willie’s due diligence in this matter”. Trust Judge Coral to be the … Continue reading

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CUE– A “RARE” ERROR?

Every time we read about CUE, we are led to understand that it hardly ever happens. If it did, then it was an aberration and one that any rater might have made given the circumstances. In short, it’s so rare that it … Continue reading

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BVA–DECISION MAILED

I checked the BVA website to see if there had been any progress on my appeal and discovered I no longer have appeals pending at the Board. Two decisions are to be announced tomorrow and one was decided a year … Continue reading

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VA’s WHEEL OF FORTUNE

I logged on to Ebenefits last night to look for progress on my appeal. Lo and behold, someone has been busy. The date of current progress has jumped from January 25th, 2012 to the current one below showing they were … Continue reading

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BVA– WHEN CUE ISN’T

From the Biggest little RO in the World (Reno) comes this little gem. Yes, it comes down from DC, granted, but it originated in the fertile minds of those funny guys in the back Room in Reno. Johnny Law was … Continue reading

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