The 120-day CAVC appeal deadline
When the clock starts, how to file, and what to consider if the deadline may have passed.
A final Board denial may be appealed to the CAVC. The ordinary deadline is 120 days after notice is issued. Learn how a CAVC attorney can help.
When the clock starts, how to file, and what to consider if the deadline may have passed.
Understand proposed remand terms, their limits, and what happens when issues return to VA.
Ricks Law challenges Board decisions through careful record review, legal research, and written advocacy. These guides explain errors that can support an appeal to the CAVC.
Learn how overlooked medical opinions, conflicting diagnoses, and lay statements can affect a Board denial and a CAVC appeal.
Learn how incomplete histories, ignored statements, and flawed medical reasoning can support a CAVC challenge to a Board decision.
Missing community-care, private, or Social Security records? Learn what to review when a Board denial may involve a duty-to-assist error.
Review a Board TDIU denial for overlooked work limitations, unexplained findings, and reasonably raised issues before a CAVC appeal.
A remand allows further proceedings on the affected issues. It does not itself award benefits.
Mo Ricks challenges Board decisions through careful record review, focused legal research, and written advocacy. He is prepared to pursue full briefing when an appeal requires it.
Mo Ricks explains how full briefing preceded VA’s concession of a records-development error and a Court-ordered remand for his client.
Mo Ricks explains how record review and a legal memo exposed an overlooked statement about work limitations and supported a TDIU remand.
Follow our work on pending appeals before the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims. These updates explain the record-based arguments and full briefing Mo Ricks pursues for his clients.
Mo Ricks explains his October 14, 2026 CAVC brief challenging PTSD and COPD ratings based on missing private records and incomplete examinations.
Read the case update →Mo Ricks challenges a knee denial through medical chronology, remand compliance, favorable evidence, and credibility arguments in a pending CAVC appeal.
Read the case update →Mo Ricks briefs a pending CAVC appeal involving knee effective dates, vascular ratings, PTSD, and overlooked evidence supporting earlier TDIU.
Read the case update →Mo Ricks challenges an asbestosis effective-date dismissal, examining supplemental-claim rules, overlooked VA records, and the rating history.
Read the case update →A Vietnam veteran challenges VA’s four-allowance limit and the denial of a clothing allowance for his left knee brace.
Read the case update →A mother challenges VA’s decision to disinter her son, with an agreement to hold off while the appeal is pending.
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