The Veteran and his representative withdrew their appeals for the issues of revision of the February 2016 rating decisions, service connection claims, and evaluation for hypertension.
The deciding factor: The withdrawal was indicated in the September 2025 correspondences by the Veteran and his representative.
- Claimed conditions
- right knee osteoarthritis and patellofemoral pain syndrome, left knee osteoarthritis and patellofemoral pain syndrome
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 13, 2025
- Citation
- A25098646
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,164 · Granted: 31% (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A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot.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.
- Dismissed
The veteran withdrew his appeals for various ratings related to his right and left knee conditions, resulting in the dismissal of these claims.
- Granted
The Board has granted service connection for tinnitus, bilateral knee disorders (right and left), and bilateral ankle disorders (left and right). The conditions are related to the Veteran's military service.
- Denied
The Veteran's service-connected knee disabilities did not prevent him from securing and following substantially gainful employment prior to November 19, 2015.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case for further development, including referral to the Director of Compensation Service for a determination on entitlement to TDIU on an extraschedular basis prior to November 19, 2015.
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