James E. Szemraj, Claimant-Appellant v. Anthony J. Principi, Secretary of Veterans Affairs

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that \VA has a duty to sympathetically read a veteran's allegations in all benefit claims\
• holding that the Secretary must sympathetically read prior pro se filings in determining if CUE exists in an earlier decision
• discussing VA's duty to \give a sympathetic reading to the veteran's filings to determine all claims for recovery supported by a liberal construction of those allegations\
• exercising jurisdiction and holding “the [Veterans Court] misunderstood our decision in Roberson,” but affirming on the grounds of harmless error “because Roberson has no application to the circumstanc- es of this case”
• requiring the Secretary to give a sympathetic reading to a veteran’s filings
• “But our decision in Roberson is not limited to its particular facts as the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims appears to have suggested here.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).