Opinion ID: 210362
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: The Board's Finding of Harmless Error

Text: Lastly, we turn to Mayfield's final argument that the Board does not have authority to use a prejudicial error analysis to find harmless error, and conclude that we need not address it. Because we held in Mayfield II that the VCAA timing error could be satisfied by the issuance of a readjudication decision following adequate VCAA notice, and find such to be the case here, the timing error in this case was in fact cured. 444 F.3d at 1334. In other words, since the March 2001 communication served as adequate notice under the VCAA and the SSOC served to readjudicate Mayfield's claim, the initial timing error was cured. Therefore, the harmless error analysis is not needed.