The Board has dismissed the appeal due to the veteran's withdrawal of his appeal prior to a decision being made.
The deciding factor: The veteran withdrew his appeal, thus meeting the criteria for dismissal as per VA regulations.
- Claimed conditions
- left upper extremity paralysis, left lower extremity paralysis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 15, 2004
- Citation
- 0401467
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Decisions by this judge: 1,555 · Granted: 19% (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A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot.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.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for service connection for various neurological conditions, as additional medical evidence is needed to determine if these conditions are related to or aggravated by the Veteran's service-connected lumbar spine disability.
- Partly granted
The veteran was granted some increased ratings and effective dates for various conditions, but denied others.
- Dismissed
The Board dismissed the veteran's claims for service connection for left and right upper extremity paralysis, specially adapted housing, special home adaptation, and automobile or other conveyance and adaptive equipment due to a duplicative appeal.
- Denied
The Veteran's claims for service connection for right and left lower extremity paralysis, as well as his claim for special monthly compensation based on loss of use of the lower extremities, were denied. The Board found no evidence to support these claims.
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