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de MAGNO v. UNITED STATES

No. 79-1852.

636 F.2d 714 (1980)

Marceliana B. Vda. de MAGNO, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America et al.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided September 24, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John B. Warden, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

David V. Seaman, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., with whom Alice Daniel, Asst. Atty. Gen., Carl S. Rauh, U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., at the time the brief was filed and William G. Kanter, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., were on brief, for appellees.

Before WALD and MIKVA, Circuit Judges and HOWARD T. MARKEY, Chief Judge, United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.

Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge WALD.

WALD, Circuit Judge:

The question before the court is whether the district court has jurisdiction over an action challenging a decision of the Veterans' Administration (the "VA") which imposed a set-off of an alleged debt against a veteran's widow's life insurance benefits. The "debt" was the result of a VA decision which declared forfeit her VA pension benefits on the basis of a purported fraud. We conclude...

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