Fujiwara v. Vierra

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• holding that hearing officer had no obligation under 38 C.F.R. § 3.103(c)(2) to advise appellant as to physician’s statement because “that statement would not have helped prove the claim” — that is, that statement would not have “provide[d] a nexus with the veteran’s service”
• hearing officer had no duty to notify appellant to obtain evidence that would not have helped prove her claim
• missing evidence would not have made claim plausible

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).