Leonard v. Nicholson

How courts have described this case

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• holding that allowing freestanding earlier effective date claims would \vitiate the rule of finality\
• “ ‘The purpose of the rule of finality is to preclude repetitive and belated read-judications of veterans’ benefits claims.’ ” (quoting Cook, 318 F.3d at 1339)
• “absent a showing of clear and unmistakable error, [the Veteran] cannot receive disability payments for a time frame earlier than the application date of his claim to reopen, even with new evidence supporting an earlier disability date.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).