Secretary Collins asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims to stop its work during the government shutdown. Judges called the request "extreme." ...

Between October 2023 and 2024, 8,937 appeals were filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims. The median time to receive a decision was 222 days, or 7.4 months.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims denied a request from Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins to pause its work on veterans' claims appeals during the government shutdown. Here, he's ...

A panel of judges denied a request from Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins to pause the work of the court that handles appeals for veterans seeking disability compensation while the federal ...