Your right eye disability was previously granted service connection in a November 2019 rating decision, making this appeal moot.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's claim for service connection was granted in a previous decision, rendering the current appeal moot.
- Claimed conditions
- right eye optic neuropathy, right eye problems
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 9, 2020
- Citation
- 20001592
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,549 · Granted: 29% (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A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot.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.
- Denied
The Board finds that the Veteran's claims for bilateral lower extremity peripheral neuropathy and right eye optic neuropathy due to herbicide exposure are not supported by the evidence of record, as there is no credible evidence of in-service exposure to Agent Orange or other herbicides. As a result, service connection cannot be granted.
- Denied
The Board has determined that the Veteran does not have any of the claimed conditions and therefore service connection is denied for hearing loss, right eye problems, tinnitus, and bilateral hand/wrist joints.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case for further development, including obtaining service medical records and scheduling VA examinations.
- Denied
The veteran's appeal was denied because his substantive appeal, received on June 4, 2004, was not filed within the required time frame.
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