Hata v. Sekiguchi

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “[i]n the normal course of events, it is the burden of the veteran to keep ... VA apprised of his whereabouts.”
• holding that when confronted with situation in which forfeiture of benefits might result, “[i]t is only where a file discloses other possible and plausible addresses that an attempt should be made to locate [a veteran] at the alternate known address”
• rebutting presumption with allegation of nonreceipt coupled with notice having been returned as undeliverable by USPS
• discussing a claimant’s duty to inform VA of his or her current contact information
• noting veteran had an address relating to a VA home loan and that that address was apparently not used by the veteran in correspondence relating to the claim at issue in Hyson
• reversing BVA determination of abandonment un der “peculiar facts” of that case

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).