The Board has dismissed the appeal due to the appellant's withdrawal of the appeal.
The deciding factor: The appellant withdrew their appeal prior to a decision being made.
- Claimed conditions
- osteoarthritis of the spine, rheumatoid arthritis (implied for radiculopathy)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 17, 2011
- Citation
- 1106531
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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A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot.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 was dismissed because the Board Appeal request was not timely filed within one year of the rating decision, and no good cause for extension was presented.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has reopened the Veteran's claim for service connection for osteoarthritis of the spine and remanded his claims for service connection for a left shoulder disorder, a left arm disorder, and an acquired psychiatric disability (PTSD, anxiety and depression).
- Denied
The Board found that the Veteran's current osteoarthritis of the spine is not related to his service, and thus denied his claim for service connection.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's appeal is remanded for additional development of his private treatment records and a VA examination to assess the severity of his service-connected osteoarthritis of the spine and its associated lumbar radiculopathy.
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