United States Federal Circuit

Adopting the "treating physician" rule in veterans' benefits cases conflicts with 38 CFR 3.303(a), which requires consideration of the entire record of evidence, by giving more weight to a piece of evidence based solely on its source.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/27/2001
• Published 03/27/2001

Judges

• SCHALL, Circuit Judge., Before SCHALL, GAJARSA, and LINN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Federal Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James W. Stanley, Jr., The Stanley Law Firm, of North Little Rock, AR, for claimant-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Patricia M. McCarthy, Attorney, Commercial Litigation Branch, Civil Division, Department of Justice, of Washington, DC, for respondent-appellee.   With her on the brief were David M. Cohen, Director, and Deborah A. Bynum, Assistant Director.   Of counsel on the brief were Donald E. Zeglin, Deputy Assistant General Counsel, and Martie Adelman, Attorney, Department of Veterans Affairs, of Washington, DC.