SHEA v. WILKIE

2018-1735.

926 F.3d 1362 (2019)

Kerry E. SHEA, Claimant-Appellant v. Robert WILKIE, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.

Decided: June 20, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Isaac Chaim Belfer , Covington & Burling LLP, Washington, DC, argued for claimant-appellant. Also represented by Jeffrey Howard Lerner ; Richard Valentine Spataro , National Veterans Legal Services Program, Washington, DC.

Mollie Lenore Finnan , Commercial Litigation Branch, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, argued for respondent-appellee. Also represented by Joseph H. Hunt , Tara K. Hogan , Robert Edward Kirschman, Jr. ; Martie Adelman , Brian D. Griffin , Derek Scadden , Office of General Counsel, United States Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, DC.

Before Dyk, Reyna, and Taranto, Circuit Judges.


Kerry Shea served in the United States Air Force. In 2007, she filed an application with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for disability benefits, expressly reciting physical injuries she sustained from an in-service truck accident. In 2008, she expressly sought disability benefits for a psychiatric condition connected...

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