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Disabled American Veterans v. Sec'y Veterans Affairs

Government Benefits, Administrative Law
In a petition for review of provisions of the Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) Adjudication Procedures Manual M21-1, involving 38 U.S.C. section...

Helen Mining Co v. Elliott

Administrative Law, Government Benefits
In a suit under the Black Lung Benefits Act (BLBA), 30 U.S.C. sections 901-45, which confers on coal workers generally the right to claim workers'...

Snyder v. Secretary of Veterans Affairs

Government Benefits, Administrative Law, Attorney's Fees
In a petition for review of a precedential opinion of the Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) General Counsel, which concerned attorney's fees, the...

DiCarlo v. Co. of Monterey

Government Benefits, Government Law
In a suit brought against a County and the California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS), seeking peremptory writs of mandamus to compel the...

Lewis v. Berryhill

Government Benefits, Administrative Law
In an action for disability insurance benefits and supplemental security income, the district court's decision upholding the Social Security...

Howell v. Howell

Government Benefits, Family Law
In a case in which a case a State treated as community property and awarded to a veteran's spouse upon divorce a portion of the veteran's total...

Walker-Butler v. Berryhill

Government Benefits, Administrative Law
In an action for review of the Commissioner of Social Security's decision granting a partially favorable decision on plaintiff's claim for Title II...

Gardner v. Berryhill

Government Benefits, Administrative Law
The district court's denial of plaintiff's application for attorney's fees pursuant to the Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA) on grounds that the...

Decker v. Beryhill

Government Benefits, Administrative Law, Attorney's Fees
In a plaintiff's application for attorney fees under the Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA), in an underlying suit in which plaintiff successfully...

Monk v. Shulkin

Government Benefits, Class Actions, Military Law, Judges & Judiciary
In a Vietnam veteran's appeal concerning whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims has authority to certify a class for class action or...