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RECINTO v. U.S. DEPT. OF VETERANS AFFAIRS

No. 11-16341.

706 F.3d 1171 (2013)

Ireneo RECINTO; Bienvenido Galas, Sr.; Ricardo Pinero; Juanita Quimbo; Florentino S. Torralba; Eder Andrade; John M. Aspiras, Jr.; Maria Agbunag; Corazon Ambata; Ofelia C. Amio; Beatriz Buena Ballais; Ramona F. Battung; Laureana E. Bungay; Florentina Delos Santos; Cora Dimla; Lolita Eugenio; Eustoquia B. Faber; Maria D. Galang; Ester G. Galang; Feliza Galeon; Juanita Gilo; Paciencia M. Mendoza; Angelina V. Natividad; Engracia A. Ocampo; Soledad N. Respito; Julie De Vera; Jovita Salamat; Antonieta Villareal, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. The UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS; Erik K. Shinseki, Secretary of Department of Veterans Affairs; W. Scott Gould, Deputy Secretary of Department of Veterans Affairs, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed February 7, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arnedo S. Valera (argued), Law Offices of Valera & Associates, Fairfax, VA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Thomas M. Bondy and Henry C. Whitaker (argued), United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Defendants-Appellees.

Before: ROBERT D. SACK, RONALD M. GOULD, and MILAN D. SMITH, JR., Circuit Judges.

OPINION

GOULD, Circuit Judge:

This case involves a group of Filipino World War II veterans and their widows who did not receive payments under the Filipino Veterans Equity Compensation Fund ("FVEC"), a fund established by statute in 2009 to give a one-time payment to each qualifying service member. These veterans and their widows either: (1) were ineligible for benefits under the statute; or (2) qualified for benefits, but were denied them because the Department...

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