The veteran's appeal has been withdrawn, and the case is dismissed as a result.
The deciding factor: The appellant requested withdrawal of her appeal prior to the Board's decision.
- Claimed conditions
- dermatitis of hands, chronic headache syndrome
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 9, 2006
- Citation
- 0603802
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,642 · Granted: 19% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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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A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot.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 has decided to remand the case due to errors in providing notice of a hearing and needing an addendum opinion regarding the relationship between service-connected tinnitus and chronic headache syndrome.
- Granted
The Veteran's chronic headache syndrome is granted as service connected. The Veteran's depression is denied as not related to service or secondary to a service-connected disability.
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