The veteran's appeal of secondary service connection for low back and left foot disorders has been withdrawn before the Board could make a decision.
The deciding factor: The veteran withdrew his appeal prior to the Board making a decision.
- Claimed conditions
- low back disorders, left foot disorders
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 12, 2003
- Citation
- 0308890
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Decisions by this judge: 685 · Granted: 36% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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What this means for you
A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot. It says more about procedure than about whether a claim like this can win.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Dismissed
The Veteran's appeal seeking an earlier effective date for service connection due to CUE in a 1996 rating decision is dismissed as the April 1998 Board decision subsumed the June 1996 RO decision.
- Denied
The Board has determined that the Veteran's current low back disorders are not related to service and have denied his claim for service connection.
- Denied
The Board found that the Veteran's low back disorders, including disc herniations and degenerative disc disease (DDD), were not incurred or aggravated during active service. The evidence did not support a finding of service connection.
- Granted
The Board finds that the Veteran's right ankle sprains incurred in service are service-connected, but his right knee and low back disorders are not related to service or any service-connected condition.
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