disability-compensation

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23A797 Marvin H. Johnson v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2024-02-28 Presumed Complete board-of-veterans-appeals disability-compensation effective-date jurisdiction pro-se veterans-benefits Whether the Veterans Court properly dismissed a pro se veteran's appeal for lack of jurisdiction when the appeal raised claims not previously presente…
22-7302 Derek Skellchock v. Alora-Ann Volz Colorado 2023-04-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP collateral-estoppel disability-compensation federal-preemption judicial-review res-judicata state-court-jurisdiction state-domestic-relations supremacy-clause veterans-benefits Where a state court can contradict a federal agency's final and conclusive decision on veterans' disability benefits
22-5142 David Adeyi v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2022-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-delay civil-rights covid-19-disruption disability-compensation due-process federal-circuit judicial-review pandemic-disruption service-connected-injury veterans-affairs veterans-benefits Should veteran be allowed to move his case forward, after he filed late with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, due to the Covid-19 pa…
21-6344 Joseph J. Snyder v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2021-11-19 Denied IFP administrative-regulation amyotrophic-lateral-sclerosis department-of-veterans-affairs disability-benefits disability-compensation presumptive-service-connection regulatory-creation service-connection statutory-authority veterans-affairs veterans-benefits Whether the Department of Veterans Affairs exceeded its statutory authority in promulgating 38 C.F.R. § 3.318, which provides veterans with presumptiv…
21-432 Adolfo R. Arellano v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2021-09-21 Judgment Issued Amici (7)Relisted (2) 38-usc-5110 disability-benefits disability-compensation equitable-tolling federal-circuit irwin-v-department-of-veterans-affairs judicial-review statutory-deadline veterans veterans-benefits Does Irwin's rebuttable presumption of equitable tolling apply to the one-year statutory deadline in 38 U.S.C. § 5110(b)(1) for seeking retroactive di…
21-5195 M. T. Q. v. Office of the Attorney General of Texas, et al. Texas 2021-07-26 Denied IFP child-support disability-compensation due-process federal-preemption military-benefits state-court-jurisdiction supremacy-clause veterans-benefits Whether state courts may order the inclusion of veterans' disability benefits as income for purposes of calculating child support obligations, despite…
20-1521 Yann Iannucci v. Macomb County Friend of the Court Michigan 2021-04-30 Denied child-support disability-compensation due-process federal-preemption military-powers state-court-jurisdiction state-jurisdiction supremacy-clause veterans-benefits Whether state courts may order the inclusion of a non-retired, disabled veteran's disability benefits as income for child support purposes
20-1148 Robert M. Sellers v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2021-02-22 Denied Amici (4) civil-rights claim-scope disability-compensation due-process pro-veteran-canon service-records statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits When a veteran has submitted an application for disability benefits, does the veteran's claim encompass all reasonably identifiable conditions within …
18-1319 Elijah Thomas v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2019-04-18 Denied Response Waived bodily-impairment civil-procedure court-of-appeals-for-veterans-claims disability disability-compensation due-process equitable-tolling judicial-review procedural-barriers procedural-exhaustion statutory-deadline statutory-interpretation veterans-affairs veterans-benefits veterans-claims Whether the 120-day deadline for filing a claim in the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims should be equitably tolled for a 100% disabled veteran una…
18-519 Joseph A. Jennings, III v. Susan W. Jennings Ohio 2018-10-19 Denied agent-orange disability-compensation domestic-relations federal-law federal-preemption howell-v-howell preemption service-connected-disability spousal-support state-law veterans-benefits veterans-disability-benefits Whether veterans disability compensation may lawfully be included as a source of income in determining spousal support in a non-community property sta…