all - Opinion Summaries

Colt Def. LLC v. Bushmaster Firearms, Inc.

Intellectual Property, Military Law, Trademark
In a trademark suit between two firearms manufacturers over the term "M4" in relation to a carbine rifle design, judgment for defendant is affirmed...

Sanders v. Nicholson

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Evidence, Government Benefits, Government Law, Health Law, Military Law
Any error in a Veterans Claims Assistance Act (VCAA) notice is presumed prejudicial, and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has the burden of...

Simmons v. Nicholson

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Evidence, Government Benefits, Government Law, Health Law, Military Law
A decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims vacating and remanding a decision denying claimant's claim for service connection for...

Pittman v. Dep't of Justice

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Labor & Employment Law, Military Law
Denial of a request for relief under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) alleging that the Federal Bureau of...

Mueller v. Winter

Admiralty, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law, Military Law
In case involving appellant Naval Lieutenant Commander's challenge to appellees' refusal to remove an assertedly erroneous fitness report from...

Gallarde v. Immigration & Naturalization Serv.

Immigration Law, Military Law
In the context of the bar imposed on aliens who seek exemption from compulsory military service, or the draft, based on alienage from becoming U.S....

Sec'y of State for Defence v. Trimble Navigation Ltd.

Contracts, Government Contracts, International Trade, Military Law
In case involving sale of auxiliary output chips, manufactured by defendant, to plaintiff U.K. Ministry of Defence for use in certain global...

Hernandez-Garcia v. Nicholson

Administrative Law, Attorney's Fees, Government Benefits, Military Law
In proceedings arising following vacatur of a denial of a claim for veterans benefits, dismissal of claimant's application for attorney fees under the...

Walther v. Sec'y of Health & Hum. Servs.

Administrative Law, Evidence, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Military Law
The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act does not require a petitioner to bear the burden of eliminating alternative causes of injury where the other...

Rapp v. Office of Personnel Mgmt.

Administrative Law, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law, Military Law
A decision terminating former Navy employee's disability annuity is vacated and remanded where there was an insufficient basis upon which to determine...