Janssen v. Principi

How courts have described this case

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• permitting appellant to explicitly waive the Court's consideration on appeal of any duty-to-assist and VCAA notice error
• a representative of the appellant, who is presumed to know the facts and the law, may knowingly and intentionally relinquish or surrender an appealable right
• counsel’s waiver of a guaranteed right is effective if the appellant has knowledge of the right and voluntarily intends to relinquish that right
• a representative of the appellant, who is presumed to know the facts and the law, may knowingly and intentionally relinquish or surrender an appealable right
• “[U]nless there is a specific preclusion to doing so, parties generally are permitted to waive the application of statutes intended for their benefit.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).