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Mayfield v. Nicholson

Administrative Law, Elder Law, Government Benefits, Health Law, Military Law
An order affirming a decision by the Board of Veterans Appeals holding that the Department of Veterans Affairs had satisfied its obligations to a...

Joyce v. Nicholson

Administrative Law, Elder Law, Government Benefits, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Military Law
An appeal from a decision of the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims regarding plaintiff's disability compensation application is dismissed where the...

Sturdy v. Dep't of the Army

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law, Military Law
The Merit Systems Protection Board has jurisdiction over a reemployment priority rights claim that is asserted by an individual who did not register...

Roberto v. Dep't of the Navy

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law, Military Law
The Merit Systems Protection Board has jurisdiction over a reemployment priority rights claim that is asserted by an individual who registered for...

Ziemski v. Ziemski

Attorney's Fees, Bankruptcy Law, Military Law
An order finding that a former husband had willfully violated an automatic bankruptcy stay with regards to certain military retirement benefits and an...

Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic & Institutional Rights, Inc.

Constitutional Law, Education Law, Government Law, Military Law
Because Congress could require law schools to provide equal access to military recruiters without violating the schools' freedoms of speech or...

Ragard v. US

Contracts, Criminal Law & Procedure, Military Law
Dismissal of defendant's challenge to his court martial conviction and sentence for sodomy is affirmed where plaintiff failed to state a claim upon...

Oglesby v. Oglesby

Family Law, Military Law
A final judgment of dissolution of marriage is reversed in part as to provisions of the final judgment concerning a former husband's military pension.

U.S. v. Kumpf

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Immigration Law, Military Law
Grant of summary judgment for the U.S. government in a denaturalization case is affirmed where the naturalized individual illegally gained his entry...

Feliciano-Hill v. Principi

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Evidence, Government Law, Health Law, Military Law
Denial of plaintiff's motion for a new trial in a suit against the Department of Veteran Affairs under the Rehabilitation Act is affirmed where: 1)...