Supreme Court Decision on Veterans’ Disability Claims: Balancing Benefit-of-the-Doubt with Clear-Error Review

In a decision that has sent ripples through the veterans’ community and administrative law circles alike, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against two veterans who argued that their disability claims were unjustly denied—even though the evidence in their cases was nearly evenly balanced. In a 7-2 decision, the court clarified that the

U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims need not re-examine the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) application of the “benefit-of-the-doubt” rule in most cases. This ruling has significant ramifications for how veterans’ claims are adjudicated and raises important questions about the balance between deference to agency decisions and the judicial duty to ensure fairness.

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