The Veteran withdrew the appeal for service connection of right and left lower extremity sciatic neuropathy.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's representative withdrew the appeal via correspondence on April 15, 2025.
- Claimed conditions
- right lower extremity sciatic neuropathy, left lower extremity sciatic neuropathy
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 27, 2025
- Citation
- A25046776
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,604 · Granted: 65% (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A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot.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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Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Remanded (sent back)
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- Dismissed
The appeal was dismissed as the Veteran did not timely file a Board Appeal request with respect to the rating decisions issued on April 17, 2023, and May 18, 2023.
- Denied
The appeal for service connection of left and right lower extremity sciatic neuropathy was denied because new and relevant evidence was not received.
- Partly granted
The veteran's appeal for increased disability ratings was partially granted. The veteran received a higher rating for coronary artery disease and both sciatic neuropathies, but the appeal for higher ratings for femoral neuropathies was denied.
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