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Veterans Claims· 12/27/1990

Fugere v. Derwinski

Citations

  • 1 Vet. App. 103
  • 1990 U.S. Vet. App. LEXIS 34
  • 1990 WL 303148

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • noting that the VA, as a matter of policy, has voluntarily adopted the provisions of the APA
  • holding a provision in the M21-1 Manual “affected a substantive right and its placement in a procedural manual cannot disguise its true nature as a substantive rule”
  • holding that agency is bound by its regulations
  • holding that agency is bound by its regulations
  • striking down the same argument as applied to an attempted rescission of an M21-1 provision
  • “Advancing different arguments at successive stages of the appellate process ... hinders the decisionmaking process and raises the undesirable specter of piecemeal litigation”

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Judges: Farley, Ivers, Kramer

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