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HANSEN-SORENSEN v. WILKIE

2017-2418.

909 F.3d 1379 (2018)

Myrna HANSEN-SORENSEN, Claimant-Appellant v. Robert WILKIE, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.

Decided: December 11, 2018.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

NATHANAEL YALE , Commercial Litigation Branch, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, argued for respondent-appellee. Also represented by ELIZABETH MARIE HOSFORD , ROBERT EDWARD KIRSCHMAN, JR. , JOSEPH H. HUNT ; BRIAN D. GRIFFIN , DEREK SCADDEN , Office of General Counsel, United States Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, DC.

KENNETH M. CARPENTER , Law Offices of Carpenter Chartered, Topeka, KS, argued for claimant-appellant.

Before Lourie, Dyk, and Taranto, Circuit Judges.

Curtis L. Hansen served in the Army National Guard for six years, which included, at the start of the service in 1959, a period of 182 days of active duty for training. Mr. Hansen died from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in 1998. A decade later, in May 2009, his widow, appellant Myrna Hansen-Sorensen, applied to the...

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