Eric K. SHINSEKI, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Petitioner,
v.
Woodrow F. SANDERS.
Eric K. Shinseki, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Petitioner,
v.
Patricia D. Simmons.
Supreme Court of United States.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued December 8, 2008.
Decided April 21, 2009.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Eric D. Miller, for petitioner.
Christopher J. Meade, for respondent Patricia D. Simmons.
Mark R. Lippman, for respondent Woodrow F. Sanders.
Gregory G. Garre, Solicitor General, Counsel of Record, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for petitioner.
Michael A. Morin, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP, Washington, DC, Mark R. Lippman, Counsel of Record, The Veterans Law Group, La Jolla, CA, for respondent.
Sean A. Ravin, Washington, DC, Christopher J. Meade, Counsel of Record, Anne K. Small, Megan Barbero, Matthew T. Jones, Catherine M. Rahm, Wilmer Cutler Pickering, Hale and Dorr LLP, New York, NY, for respondent Patricia Simmons.
Michael A. Morin, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP, Washington, DC, Mark R. Lippman, Counsel of Record, The Veterans Law Group, La Jolla, CA, for respondent Woodrow F. Sanders.
Paul J. Hutter, General Counsel, Richard J. Hipolit, Assistant General Counsel, David J. Barrans, Martie S. Adelman, Attorneys, Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, D.C., Gregory G. Garre, Acting Solicitor General, Counsel of Record, Gregory G. Katsas, Assistant Attorney General, Edwin S. Kneedler, Deputy Solicitor General, Eric D. Miller, Assistant to the Solicitor General, Jeanne E. Davidson, Todd M. Hughes, Martin F. Hockey, Jr., Attorneys, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for petitioner.
JusticeBREYER delivered the opinion of the Court.
In these two civil cases, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) denied veterans' claims for disability benefits. In both cases the VA erroneously failed to provide the veteran with a certain kind of statutorily required notice. See 38 U.S.C. § 5103(a). In both cases the VA argued that the...
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