Court Opinion

ID: 4505721
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2020-02-07 17:00:41.495764+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:05:18.192330
License: Public Domain

Case: 19-1313   Document: 35     Page: 1    Filed: 02/07/2020

        NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.

   United States Court of Appeals
       for the Federal Circuit
                 ______________________

                 WILLIAM G. ABELL,
                  Claimant-Appellant

                            v.

   ROBERT WILKIE, SECRETARY OF VETERANS
                   AFFAIRS,
              Respondent-Appellee
             ______________________

                       2019-1313
                 ______________________

    Appeal from the United States Court of Appeals for
 Veterans Claims in No. 17-1983, Chief Judge Margaret C.
 Bartley.
                 ______________________

                Decided: February 7, 2020
                 ______________________

    KENNETH M. CARPENTER, Law Offices of Carpenter
 Chartered, Topeka, KS, argued for claimant-appellant.

     SOSUN BAE, Commercial Litigation Branch, Civil Divi-
 sion, United States Department of Justice, Washington,
 DC, argued for respondent-appellee. Also represented by
 JOSEPH H. HUNT, MARTIN F. HOCKEY, JR., ROBERT EDWARD
 KIRSCHMAN, JR.; BRIAN D. GRIFFIN, BRYAN THOMPSON,
Case: 19-1313    Document: 35     Page: 2    Filed: 02/07/2020

 2                                           ABELL v. WILKIE

 Office of General Counsel, United States Department of
 Veterans Affairs, Washington, DC.
                  ______________________

     Before MOORE, WALLACH, and STOLL, Circuit Judges.
 MOORE, Circuit Judge.
     William G. Abell appeals the United States Court of
 Appeals for Veterans Claims’ decision affirming the Board
 of Veterans’ Appeals’ severance of Mr. Abell’s award of ser-
 vice connection for back and right hip disabilities. Mr.
 Abell’s arguments on appeal challenge only the Board’s fac-
 tual determinations and application of law to the facts. Be-
 cause we do not have jurisdiction to review such
 challenges, we dismiss. 38 U.S.C. § 7292(d) (2012); see
 Prinkey v. Shinseki, 735 F.3d 1375, 1382–83 (Fed. Cir.
 2013).
                       DISMISSED