Jimmie L. Livingston v. Edward J. Derwinski, Secretary of Veterans Affairs

How courts have described this case

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• instructing that jurisdictional statutes must be strictly construed and that a court cannot, “even in the interest of justice, extend [its] jurisdiction where none exists”
• dismissing appeal chal- lenging Board’s finding that new and material evidence had not been submitted
• dismissing appeal chal- lenging Board’s finding that new and material evidence had not been submitted
• “[T]he mere recitation of a basis for jurisdiction by either party ora couit, is not controlling.”
• “[T]he mere recitation of a basis for jurisdiction by either party or a court, is not controlling . . .”
• “[M]ere recitation of a basis for jurisdiction by either party or a court, is not controlling; we must look to the true nature of the action.

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