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· 2/10/1908

Territory of Hawaii v. Sing Yuen

Citations

  • 18 Haw. 611

How courts have described this case

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

  • discussing possible definitions of substantially gainful employment including nonmarginal employment but concluding that disposing of that case did “not require that we adopt a definition of ‘substantially gainful employment’ ”
  • “[u]nder 38 C.F.R. § 4.40 (1990), the VA has a duty to determine functional loss which includes evaluating a veteran’s pain”
  • the VA has a duty to determine functional loss which includes evaluating the veteran’s pain
  • all remanding cases to the Board because it failed to consider a veteran's claim for disability compensation as a claim for nonservice-connected pension
  • Board “merely offered its own opinion” in determining that the appellant’s disabilities did not prevent him from working, “a technique this Court has previously determined to be inadequate”
  • a 70% rating alone should trigger the consideration of 4.16(c)

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Judges: Ballou, Haetwell, Wlldee

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