UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR VETERANS CLAIMS

MISC. NO. 09-07

IN RE: BILATERAL TINNITUS CASES

Before GREENE, Chief Judge, and KASOLD, HAGEL, MOORMAN,

LANCE, DAVIS, and SCHOELEN, Judges.

O R D E R

On June 19, 2006, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed this Court's

decision in Smith v. Nicholson, 19 Vet.App. 63 (2005), regarding the availability of dual disability

ratings for service-connected bilateral tinnitus, and ordered the matter remanded to this Court for

further proceedings. Smith v. Nicholson, 451 F.3d 1344 (Fed. Cir. 2006). On September 18, 2006,

Mr. Smith filed a petition for a writ of certiorari with the U.S. Supreme Court; that petition was

denied on January 22, 2007. Smith v. Nicholson, 127 U.S. 1147 (2007). To promote judicial

economy and efficiency, this Court stayed all pending cases involving bilateral tinnitus. See U.S.

VET. APP. MISC. NO. 05-06 (July 12, 2006), amended by MISC. NO. 08-06 (Sept. 25, 2006). 

On January 31, 2007, the Court lifted the stays imposed by Miscellaneous Orders 05-06 and

08-06. See U.S. VET. APP. MISC. NO. 05-07 (Jan. 31, 2007). Therein, the Court ordered that cases

that were stayed prior to transmittal to the Clerk of the record on appeal would be dismissed pursuant

to Rule 41(b) of the Court's Rules of Practice and Procedure absent a filing within 30 days by either

party (1) seeking to terminate the appeal, or (2) showing cause as to why a particular case should not

be dismissed. Id. There has been no such filing in the cases identified in the addendum to this order.

Upon consideration of the foregoing, it is 

ORDERED that the appeals identified in the addendum to this order are DISMISSED. It is

further

ORDERED that, as to the appeals identified in the addendum to this order, and pursuant to

Rule 41(b), this order is the final judgment and mandate of the Court. See U.S. VET. APP. R. 41(b).

DATED: March 26, 2007 BY THE COURT:

WILLIAM P. GREENE, JR.

Chief Judge 

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