Court Opinion

ID: 9880597
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Date Created: 2023-09-27 20:01:25.578733+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:53:56.065125
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Case: 20-1218    Document: 48    Page: 1   Filed: 09/27/2023

           NOTE: This order is nonprecedential.

   United States Court of Appeals
       for the Federal Circuit
                  ______________________

                 CHARLES J. RAYBINE,
                   Claimant-Appellant

                            v.

        DENIS MCDONOUGH, SECRETARY OF
               VETERANS AFFAIRS,
                Respondent-Appellee
               ______________________

                        2020-1218
                  ______________________

      Appeal from the United States Court of Appeals for
 Veterans Claims in No. 18-6117, Judge Joseph L. Falvey,
 Jr., Judge Joseph L. Toth, Judge William S. Greenberg.
                  ______________________

                      ON MOTION
                  ______________________

 PER CURIAM. 1
                       ORDER

    1   Circuit Judge Newman did not participate.
Case: 20-1218       Document: 48     Page: 2    Filed: 09/27/2023

 2                                       RAYBINE v. MCDONOUGH

     Upon consideration of the Secretary’s unopposed mo-
 tion to remand the case to the United States Court of Ap-
 peals for Veterans Claims,
       IT IS ORDERED THAT:
     The motion is granted. The case is remanded to the
 United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims to re-
 consider its decision in light of Taylor v. McDonough, 71
 F.4th 909 (Fed. Cir. 2023) (en banc), which held
       that when a veteran has been determined to be en-
       titled to benefits for one or more disabilities con-
       nected to participation in the Edgewood program at
       issue, the required effective date of such benefits is
       the date that the veteran would have had in the
       absence of the challenged government conduct—
       imposition of the secrecy oath with no VA route for
       claim presentation and proof to vindicate the bene-
       fits entitlement.
 Taylor, 71 F.4th at 946.

                                                   FOR THE COURT

     September 27, 2023
           Date