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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21-1453 | Joe A. Lynch v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs | Federal Circuit | 2022-05-17 | Denied | Amici (6) | administrative-law legislative-history pro-claimant pro-veteran-canon standard-of-proof statutory-interpretation va-claims veterans-benefits | Are the many millions of disabled veterans, their survivors and dependents entitled to have the VA meet a higher threshold of proof to deny their clai… |
| 19-604 | Ernest L. Francway, Jr. v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs | Federal Circuit | 2019-11-08 | Denied | Amici (2) | administrative-law burden-of-proof department-of-veterans-affairs due-process federal-circuit judicial-presumption medical-examination medical-examiner medical-expertise presumption-of-competency pro-claimant va-medical-examiners veterans-benefits | Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that the VA enjoys a presumption that its medical examiner is competent in every veterans-benefit case |