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Opinion
Filed
April 21, 2009
Case
Shinseki, Secretary of Veterans Affairs v. Sanders
Case status
Decided

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Justice Breyer delivered the opinion of the Court. In these two civil cases, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) denied veterans’ claims for disability benefits. In both cases the VA erroneously failed to provide the veteran with a certain kind of statutorily required notice. See 38 U. S. C. § 5103(a). In both cases the VA argued that the error was harmles…

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