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· 12/5/2008

Michael T. Acciola v. James B. Peake

Citations

  • 22 Vet. App. 320
  • 2008 U.S. Vet. App. LEXIS 1483
  • 2008 WL 5605826

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that merely citing a general entitlement statute or regulation is insufficient to allege a specific CUE theory and explaining that to accept such broad pleadings would create a \pleading gimmick\ placing undue burden on the Secretary to invent CUE theories to adjudicate
  • \[I]f the pleading could encompass numerous theories [of CUE] . . . a CUE motion is properly dismissed without prejudice.\
  • Secretary conceding that even pleadings filed by a veteran’s representative are to be read sympathetically
  • Secretary conceding that even pleadings filed by a veteran's representative are to be read sympathetically
  • “[A] CUE theorfy] [is] more likely to be successful when the claimant ... clearly intends to raise it.”
  • “[I]f the pleading could encompass numerous theories [of CUE] ... a CUE motion is properly dismissed without prejudice.”

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Judges: Greene, Lance, Davis

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