The appeal is remanded for a Travel Board hearing before a Veterans Law Judge.
The deciding factor: Procedural due process requires scheduling of the requested hearing.
- Claimed conditions
- status post gallbladder removal surgery with digestive disorder and stomach pains, chronic adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depression, iliolumbar ligament strain with thoracolumbar subluxation, degenerative joint disease of the right knee, degenerative joint disease of the left knee
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 24, 2008
- Citation
- 0809771
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,440 · Granted: 30% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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What this means for you
A remand is not a loss. The Board sent the case back for more development — often a new exam or missing records — before making a final decision. Many remands later end in a grant, and the decision spells out exactly what the Board wanted to see.
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