Lewis Hodge, Claimant-Appellant v. Togo D. West, Jr., Secretary of Veterans Affairs

How courts have described this case

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• observing that \systemic fairness and the appearance of fairness carries great weight\ within the veterans benefits system
• noting that the veterans benefits system is \so uniquely proclaimant [that] the importance of systemic fairness and the appearance of fairness carries great weight\
• holding invalid, as beyond requirements of 38 C.F.R. § 3.156(a) (1998), test enunciated in Colvin v. Derwinski, 1 Vet.App. 171, 174 (1991), for determining materiality of newly presented evidence
• holding the test created by the Court in Colvin to determine whether a claimant has submitted new and material evidence to reopen a claim was unnecessarily stringent and inconsistent with 38 C.F.R. § 3.156(a)
• stating that ”[t]his court and the Supreme Court both have long recognized that the character of the veterans’ benefits statutes is strongly and uniquely pro-claimant” and describing “the historically non-adversarial system of awarding benefits to veterans”
• stating that \[t]his court and the Supreme Court both have long recognized that the character of the veterans' benefits statutes is strongly and uniquely pro-claimant\ and describing \the historically non- adversarial system of awarding benefits to veterans\

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