The Board denied the veteran's motion to vacate its decision, finding that the veteran had sufficient time to submit evidence.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the veteran and his attorney had nearly six weeks following the August 2024 vacatur for the submission of evidence, yet no evidence or extension request was submitted.
- Claimed conditions
- hemorrhagic stroke residuals
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- January 15, 2025
- Citation
- 25000585
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,886 · Granted: 24% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
This is a plain-language summary generated by AI from a public Board of Veterans’ Appeals decision. It can contain errors — always verify against the original. Read the original VA decision (opens in a new tab) using citation 25000585.
What this means for you
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What you can do next
Use your own notice and decision stage. A remanded issue is not a final court-appealable denial. VA review guidance and CAVC filing instructions (U.S. federal; reviewed October 7, 2026).
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case due to issues related to VA treatment and compensation under 38 U.S.C. § 1151 for hemorrhagic stroke residuals.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's claims for higher ratings for his service-connected conditions, including arteriosclerotic heart disease, anterior body scar, left lower extremity scar, right lower extremity scar, and hemorrhagic stroke residuals, as well as entitlement to Dependents' Educational Assistance prior to August 4, 2023, and total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU), are being remanded due to pre-decisional duty to assist errors in the examination records.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has decided to remand the case due to missing VA treatment records and an inadequate medical opinion. The Veteran's claim for compensation under 38 U.S.C. § 1151 is now before the Board again.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
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