Opinion ID: 2570
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 6

Heading: Merits of Dibble's Claim .1) Standard of Review

Text: As noted, rulings of a Board for the Correction of Military Records can be set aside only if they are arbitrary, capricious, or unsupported by substantial evidence. Chappell, 462 U.S. at 303, 103 S.Ct. 2362; see also 5 U.S.C. § 706(2). In determining whether the Board's decision was arbitrary or capricious, a court may not assess the wisdom of an agency's choice; inquiry is limited instead to whether the Board has made a clear error of judgment. Falk, 870 F.2d at 945. And in determining whether the Board's decision was not supported by substantial evidence, if there is such evidence as a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion then the agency's decision must be accepted even when the court would have drawn a different conclusion from the evidence. Id. (internal quotation marks omitted). The deference that courts must show the agency's decision increases when, as here, the decision involves a military context. Id.