Lepere v. United Public Workers

How courts have described this case

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• holding that Board reopening is unlawful when new and material evidence has not been submitted
• Court vacated BVA decision denying service connection where BVA should not have reopened claim in the first instance
• improper reopening deprives “the previous denial of finality, and effectively establishes a date for new final denial which has no basis in fact or in law”
• a claim reopened absent new and material evidence never existed “in contemplation of law”
• Board reopening is unlawful when new and material evidence has not been submitted

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).