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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 Congress has established a veterans-benefits system that is uniquely pro-claimant. In veterans-benefit cases, every statutory and regulatory presumpti…