Eddie N. Dela Cruz v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Whether the Federal Circuit has erred in its narrow construction of ARRA Section 1002—a remedial veteran's statute providing a benefit for Filipinos who were "call[ed] and order[ed] into the service of the armed forces of the United States" during WWII—by not following the pro-veteran canon requiring that the Act be "liberally construed for the benefit of those who left private life to serve their country in its hour of great need."
Whether the Federal Circuit has erred in its narrow construction of ARRA Section 1002—a remedial veteran's statute providing a benefit for Filipinos who were 'call[ed] and order[ed] into the service of the armed forces of the United States' during WWII—by not following the pro-veteran canon requiring that the Act be 'liberally construed for the benefit of those who left private life to serve their country in its hour of great need