veterans-affairs

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24-468 Jo Spence v. Department of Veterans Affairs, et al. District of Columbia 2024-10-25 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure liberal-pleading-standard pro-se-pleading rule-12b6 veterans-affairs whistleblower-protection 1. Whether the Court's issuance of a ruling stating that the liberal pleading standard does not invariably apply to pro se attorneys without first add…
24-5262 Stephen Tripodi v. David Fero, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP discrimination due-process expert-witness medical-malpractice pro-se-litigant veterans-affairs 1. Does the ninth circuit's affirmation, granting summary judgment for failing to produce expert witness by a pro se litigant when a pro se litigant i…
23-7325 In Re Linda Ann Wright 2024-04-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion property-rights standing veterans-affairs 1. Whether Judge Ranjan Abused his discretion in § 1915(2)? 2. Whether it was possible to achieve due process, when there are three jurisdictions cau…
23-779 David Forsythe v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2024-01-18 Denied Amici (3) accardi-doctrine administrative-law disability-benefits federal-circuit judicial-review notice-requirements statutory-interpretation va-regulation veterans-affairs veterans-benefits To ensure that veterans' claims are presented to agency decisionmakers with all available support, Congress has directed the Department of Veterans Af…
23-765 Mital Suman Kumar Patel v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Fourth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Response Waived civil-rights disparate-impact employment employment-discrimination medical-certification national-origin title-vii veterans-affairs At the time of Petitioner's application for employment with the defendant institution, it was the policy of Veterans Affairs to require the following …
23-543 Solena Y. Hampton v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2023-11-21 Denied Response Waived 38-usc-7104 38-usc-7292 administrative-law chenery-doctrine fact-finding implicit-denial judicial-review statutory-interpretation va-benefits veterans-affairs veterans-claims When the VA fails to adjudicate the disposition of a claim for benefits, may a reviewing Court find that the VA meant to implicitly deny the claim, wi…
23-501 Norman A. Mallory v. Rocky Mountain Human Service SSVF Tenth Circuit 2023-11-14 Denied civil-rights covid-19 equal-protection public-accommodations racial-discrimination veterans-affairs I Isn't this race discrimination, when a black elderly veteran applied to a veterans program for some help during the covid-19 pandemic and was treat…
23-465 Timothy Dolbin v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2023-11-02 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights class-action mootness personal-stake relation-back rule-23 stare-decisis veterans-affairs veterans-appeals If a n RCA under Rule 23 of the F ederal Rules of Civil Procedure is dismissed based on an erroneous interpretation of law , but not on the merits, do…
23-178 Peter Van Dermark v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2023-08-25 Denied Amici (3) emergency-medical-treatment federal-circuit-review geographic-limitation presumption-against-implied-repeals reimbursement reimbursement-rights statutory-interpretation veterans-affairs veterans-benefits Whether eligible veterans are entitled to reimbursement of out-of-pocket costs incurred while receiving emergency treatment abroad based on the specif…
23-5402 In Re Tonya Knowles 2023-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5-usc-2302 administrative-procedure constitutional-violation department-of-veteran-affairs executive-leadership federal-law human-resources management prohibited-personnel-practices veterans-affairs 1. Does the Department of Veteran Affairs-Human Resources, Executive Leadership, Management and or Staff reserve the right to violate the law regardin…
22-7470 In Re Tonya Knowles 2023-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitution constitutional-violation due-process employment executive-leadership government human-resources personnel-practices prohibited-practices veterans-affairs whistleblower 1. Does the Department of Veteran Affairs-Human Resources, Executive Leadership, Management and or Staff reserve the right to violate the law regardin…
22-815 Victor B. Skaar v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2023-02-28 Denied Amici (4) administrative-law all-writs-act class-action exhaustion exhaustion-requirement federal-circuit injunctive-relief judicial-jurisdiction statutory-authority veterans-affairs veterans-court Does the Veterans Court have statutory or inherent authority to include veterans whose individual claims are not yet exhausted in a class seeking inju…
22-5999 Enrique M. Flores-Vazquez v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2022-11-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law appeals-process due-process evidence evidence-review judicial-mandate judicial-review veterans-affairs Under what authority, rule or law? The Board of Department of Veterans Affairs can over rule and disregard 2 Mandates, after Judge Lance on 7/15/2012 …
22-360 Veteran Warriors, Inc., et al. v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2022-10-18 Denied Amici (2) administrative-law agency-interpretation chevron-deference judicial-review pro-veteran-canon statutory-construction statutory-interpretation veterans-affairs 1. Whether courts can defer to the construction of a statute by the Department of Veterans Affairs without first considering whether the statute permi…
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 filled late s the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, due to the Covid-19 Pand…
21-1483 Leander Bacon, et ux. v. United States, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-05-25 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process ejectment-action foreclosure-dispute issue-preclusion rooker-feldman-doctrine standing takings title-restoration veterans-affairs veterans-rights This case has involved an effort by a wounded combat veteran and his wife seeking (a) an injunction against eviction based on a disputed foreclosure o…
21-7028 Fred Pride v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2022-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law due-process equal-protection informal-claim medical-record pro-se pro-se-veteran va-medical-records veterans-affairs veterans-benefits A special provision, 38 C.F. R. § 3 157, (Authority 38 U.S. Code § 5108), effectively makes a VA medical record itself an informal claim that can be r…
21-6971 Byron Case v. Douglas County, Oregon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-26 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process federal-preemption military-benefits military-disability spousal-support state-court-jurisdiction state-courts supremacy-clause veterans-affairs veterans-rights Weather federal law(s) 10 U.S.C. § 1408 and 38 U.S.C. § 5301 can be overridden by state law(s) regarding military veterans ' disability income or asse…
21-6928 Dennis Lee Maxberry v. United States Federal Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process honorable-discharge insider-trading military-discharge prejudice statutes-of-limitation veterans-affairs veterans-rights 1. Isn't a questionable claim by the defendant's that the Discharged Peace-time Veteran who had been discharged to a soft landing usually is when the …
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 1. Whether the Secretary of Veteran Affairs' imposition of a length of service requirement for the presumption of service connection for ALS is counte…
21-362 Reuel Jacques Abale Gnalega v. United States, et al. District of Columbia 2021-09-08 Denied Response Waived civil-rights discovery due-process federal-tort-claims-act medical-malpractice standing statute-of-limitations summary-judgment va-hospital veterans-affairs (A) Issue 1: Whether Appellate review of a grant of summary judgment was de novo , (Judicial Watch, finely. rflep 'tfofD?f.-, M3 F.3d 1106, 1110't&.C …
21-5213 Zachary B. Taylor v. Georgia Georgia 2021-07-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process false-imprisonment habeas-corpus medical-negligence mental-health veterans-affairs Review the voir dire jury selection process in the trial court that resulted in a Batson challenge about the racial composition of a majority of a jur…
20-1463 Mortgage Investors Corporation, et al. v. United States ex rel. Victor E. Bibby, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-19 Denied Response Waived agency-actions agency-knowledge false-claims-act fee-noncompliance government-agency government-payment-decision materiality regulatory-compliance veterans-affairs When a government agency pays claim s despite actual awarenes s of widespread noncompliance with certain regulatory requirements, whether evidence of …
20-1271 Daryl R. Blanton v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2021-03-12 Denied Response Waived 38-usc-5109a administrative-law clear-and-unmistakable-error clear-unmistakable-error due-process federal-circuit judicial-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation veterans-affairs veterans-benefits Is the Cook standard to establish CUE in a VA decision erroneously restrictive?
20-1139 Florence Jones v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2021-02-19 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-decision agency-decision-making circuit-split due-process federal-circuit judicial-review retrospective-elaboration veterans-affairs veterans-benefits When a federal agency fails contemporaneously to explain its reasons for an action, the law speaks of two options. One is for the agency to act anew. …
20-6963 F. Allan Midyett v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eighth Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination federal-criminal federal-employment indian-employment statutory-compliance veterans-affairs The question in this case is whether the Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs can refuse to comply with provisions of 25 U.S.C. Ch. 36 to t…
20-784 Jeffry Schmidt v. Kenneth J. Braithwaite, Secretary of the Navy District of Columbia 2020-12-08 Denied Response Waived administrative-review arbitrary-and-capricious arbitrary-capricious-standard disability-evaluation disability-ratings judicial-notice medical-evidence military-compensation military-disability new-and-material-evidence veterans-affairs veterans-disability 1. Did Federal Circuits, including the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Refuse to Recognize that the U.S. Military and the …
20-5205 Jamaal A. Lewis, Sr. v. Hector Joyner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights disability-benefits due-process military-sexual-trauma veterans-affairs Whether the U.S. Parole Commission has the authority to determine the parole eligibility date of federally-transferred military inmates. Whether the …
19-1095 James Beggs, et ux. v. Beverly Story, et al. Virginia 2020-03-06 Denied civil-rights conspiracy court-fraud domestic-terrorism due-process mental-health military-power-of-attorney national-defense-authorization-act standing title-18-usc-241-242 veterans-affairs veterans-rights Was a Veteran deprived of continued Mental Health Care from a War Zone under President Obama Executive Order 13625 by Conspiracy Under Title 18, U.S.C…
19-7669 Lawrence Eliot Mattison v. Janie Deborah Willis, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-02-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-13 38-cfr-814 38-cfr-814-560-561 concurrent-criminal-jurisdiction concurrent-jurisdiction criminal-jurisdiction federal-criminal-jurisdiction federal-enclave federal-enclave-jurisdiction jurisdiction-transfer retrocession stalking state-criminal-prosecution state-prosecution veterans-affairs Whether repeal of code of Virginia §7.1-21(1976) of jurisdiction over alleged crimes and offenses committed on federal enclave property, and acceptanc…
19-7573 Sean M. Donahue v. Eugene Scalia, Secretary of Labor, et al. Third Circuit 2020-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights district-court-jurisdiction due-process federal-courts jobs-for-veterans-act standing statutory-enforcement statutory-interpretation veterans-affairs veterans-employment-rights veterans-preference-act void-for-vagueness Question I. WHAT IS THE APPROPRIATE ENFORCEMENT MECHANISM FOR 38 U.S.C. §4215? Question II. WHAT IS THE NEXT BEST ENFORCEMENT MECHANISM ABSENT THE US…
19-7267 Piper Lakay Ellis Snowton v. United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-diligence due-process equitable-doctrine fraud fraudulent-concealment judicial-bias procedural-technicalities standing veterans-affairs 1. whether With the facts and circumstances surrounding case No. 3:18-cv-2900-S-BN from the united states district court, northern district of texas, …
19-578 Sandra G. Hale v. United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-11-04 Denied Response Waived administrative-law chemical-burns chemical-exposure expert-testimony federal-tort-claims-act medical-malpractice pesticide-regulations pesticide-usage veterans-affairs 1. Whether an expert Toxicologist can testify regarding chemical burns. 2. Whether cleaning dentures is practicing dentistry and therefore a dental t…
19-6217 Joanne Hall v. Department of Veterans Affairs Fourth Circuit 2019-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights disability due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review medical-care negligence post-conviction-relief procedural-default state-court-dismissal veterans-affairs 1. Whether the Disabled Veteran Petitioner had Beceived Adequate healthcare at the Veterans Medicalcentar? 2. Whether Petitioner's Symptons, tests, m…
19-464 Veterans Contracting Group, Inc. v. United States Federal Circuit 2019-10-08 Denied unlawful act by the agency is shielded from judic administrative-law agency-action civil-procedure due-process government-contracts judicial-review service-disabled-veterans small-business small-business-set-aside standing statutory-compliance va-procurement veterans-affairs veterans-contracts Whether agency action based on an earlier, unlawful act by the agency is shielded from judicial correction based on an individual employee's alleged l…
19-5335 Patrick Brunette v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2019-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure disability-rating due-process effective-date lay-testimony material-evidence medical-evidence medical-records prescribed-bedrest reconsideration reopening-claims service-connected-disabilities veterans-affairs veterans-affairs-regulations veterans-claims 1. Whether the VA incorrectly discharged its responsibilities under 38 C.F.R. Section 3.156(c) with respect to taking the actions required upon reopen…
19-5056 Byron Randall Fisher v. Richmond, The American International University in London, Inc. Second Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied IFP binding-precedent civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process false-evidence judicial-procedure legal-precedent spoliation-of-evidence veterans-affairs Did the lower courts violate the constitutional rights of an Iraq War Veteran (Petitioner) by allowing the Respondent to utilize the same falsified ev…
18-9532 Lemuel Clayton Bray v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-06-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection feres-doctrine military-compensation retaliation sovereign-immunity veterans-affairs veterans-rights Are U.S. War Veterans and active duty military separate and unequal citizens under the Constitution, Article I, Section 8, Paragraph 14, despite the 1…
18-1360 Robert G. Thornton v. United States, et al. District of Columbia 2019-04-30 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment standing administrative-law civil-rights due-process fair-hearing first-amendment fraud judicial-review obstruction-of-justice standing veterans-affairs veterans-rights Whether a veteran has a right to meaningful access to the courts and administrative agencies under the First Amendment of the Constitution when the go…
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 Should the 120 day deadline stated in 38 U.S.C. § 7266(a) for filing a claim in the Court of Appeals for Veteran Claims be equitably tolled where the …
18-8716 Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry, et al. Pennsylvania 2019-04-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 107th-congress congressional-act constitutional-provisions employment-rights federal-funding job-placement jurisdiction public-law public-law-107-288 state-obligations state-services statutory-provisions us-jobs-for-veterans-act veterans-affairs veterans-benefits veterans-services WHAT IS THE US JOBS FOR VETERANS ACT (Public Law 107-288, 107th Congress)? WHAT SERVICES ARE OWED TO ALL VETERANS BY STATES THAT ACCEPT FEDERAL FUNDI…
18-8101 Lawrence Montgomery Foltz v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction military-law military-records property-rights standing takings veterans-affairs DO THE CHATTELS, AND REMAIN'S, OF PN AMERICAN SOLDIER COME UNDER THE JURISDICTION OF MILI TARY HOME OF RECORD (SEE SUPREME CWURT RUCING REGARDING OF A…
18-7755 Pauline Garcia v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2019-02-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law administrative-regulation civil-procedure constitutional-issue constitutional-law due-process henderson-v-shinseki judicial-review procedural-rights standing veterans-affairs veterans-law When should a Veteran be allowed to raise a Constitutional Due Process issue under 38 C.F.R. § 20.1409? Does the reasoning of Henderson v. Shinseki, …
18-7604 Jacques Paul Villafana v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied IFP civil-rights confidentiality confidentiality-statute due-process mailroom-search medical-records medical-records-privacy prisoner-rights privacy privacy-rights veterans-affairs veterans-benefits 1. Military veterans' medical records are privileged and confidential under 38 U.S.C.A. § 5701, 5705, and 7332. Petitioner - a military veteran and a …
18-6607 Scott Peters v. John Baldwin Seventh Circuit 2018-11-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 2nd-amendment 38-usc-1331 circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-violations disability-discrimination due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-tort-claims free-speech habeas-corpus Is the Eleventh Circuit's interpretation of 28-U.S medical-mistreatment retroactivity savings-clause statutory-interpretation veterans-affairs 1.) PlAiNtiff cAuNot Sve tHtE UNited StatEs DepartmertoR veteraNs AFFARS FOR CONstitUtONAL WRONS AGAiNSt HiM FOR DeLiBeRAtE INDIFFERNCE OR 14TH AOMENA…
18-570 Felisa Tunac, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Randy Tunac, Deceased v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-31 Denied Response Waived administrative-review civil-procedure healthcare judicial-review judicial-review-act jurisdiction jurisdictional-limitation medical-malpractice negligence negligence-claims va-healthcare veterans-affairs veterans-judicial-review-act 1) Whether the court below erroneously held that its jurisdiction was limited by the Veterans' Judicial Review Act to negligence claims against Depart…
18-448 Estate of Jerry West, Deceased v. Department of Veterans Affairs Sixth Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1447 38-usc-511 administrative-law civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction probate-exception remand subject-matter-jurisdiction veterans-affairs veterans-benefits 1) whether the United States District Court correctly held that the Kentucky probate court has exclusive jurisdiction over the disability award in que…
18-216 Judith Ann Paixao and Kevin A. Lombard v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-08-20 Denied Response Waived 18-usc-666(b) criminal-law federal-assistance federal-assistance-program fraud judicial-review justice-thomas-dissent lower-court-interpretation reconsideration-of-precedent statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent veterans-affairs vocational-rehabilitation Whether the Court should reconsider Fischer v. United States, 529 U.S. 667, 686 (2000), because, as Justice Thomas's dissent predicted, the lower cour…
18-80 Pamela Melvin v. Peter O'Rourke, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2018-07-17 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion due-process equal-protection inherent-power judicial-review search-and-seizure standard-of-review statutory-interpretation veterans-affairs veterans-law waived-arguments Whether 38 USC §7292 prohibits review of the Veterans Court's decision and evidence. Whether the Federal Circuit's decision conflicts with this Court…