Vietnam Veterans of America v. Secretary of the Navy, (Two Cases). Vietnam Veterans of America v. Secretary of the Navy

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• noting, but not deciding, that pursuit of equitable relief in district court may preclude plaintiff from later seeking monetary relief in Court of Federal Claims
• noting that courts are divided, in cases where plaintiffs request both monetary and equitable relief, over whether Court of Federal Claims jurisdiction precludes district court from healing simultaneous request for equitable relief or vice-versa, and that this court has not decided issue
• requiring a court to go outside the record to determine its jurisdiction would “complicate the jurisdictional issue.”
• “It is ... clear that a claim is not for money merely because its success may lead to pecuniary costs for the government or benefits for the plaintiff.”
• “[O]ur rule/policy exegesis is not inconsistent with the rule that agencies must follow their own procedures.”
• “claim is not for money merely because its success may lead to pecuniary costs for the government or benefits for the plaintiff”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).