The Veteran has withdrawn his appeals for service connection for anxiety, depression, anger issues, sleep disturbance, and paresthesia conditions.
The deciding factor: The Veteran withdrew his appeals for the listed conditions through his representative's statements.
- Claimed conditions
- anxiety condition, depression condition, anger issues condition, sleep disturbance condition, paresthesia condition
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 31, 2019
- Citation
- 19197129
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,506 · Granted: 43% (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A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot.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
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