Judicial Review of Compensation and Pension Claims: Hearing Before a Subcommittee ... Eighty-second Session, on H.R. 360, H.R. 478, H.R. 2442 and H.R. 6777, Bills Seeking to Provide Judicial Review of Compensation and Pension Claims Under Laws Administered by the Veterans' Administration. May 6, 1952

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Page 1968 - The judgment and decree of the court affirming, modifying, or setting aside, in whole or in part, any such order of the Commission shall be final, subject to review by the Supreme Court of the United States upon certiorari or certification as provided in sections 239 and 240 of the Judicial Code, as amended (USC, title 28, sees. 346 and 347).
Page 1968 - Affairs on any question of law or fact concerning a claim for benefits or payments under this or any other Act administered by the Veterans Administration shall be final and conclusive and no other official or any court of the United States shall have power or jurisdiction to review any such decisions.
Page 1968 - Any person -who shall, directly or indirectly, solicit, contract for, charge, or receive, or who shall attempt to solicit, contract for, charge, or receive any fee or compensation, except as herein provided, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and for each and every offense shall be punishable by a fine of not more than $500 or by imprisonment at hard labor for not more than two years, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Page 1978 - The action of the Commission in allowing or denying any claim under this Act shall be final and conclusive on all questions of law and fact and not subject to review by any other official of the United States or by any court by mandamus or otherwise...
Page 1978 - All decisions rendered by the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs under the provisions of this title, or the regulations issued pursuant thereto, shall be final and conclusive on all questions of law and fact, and no other official or court of the United States shall have jurisdiction to review by mandamus or otherwise any such decision. SEC. 6. In addition to the pensions provided in this title, the Administrator of Veterans...
Page 1975 - The interference of the courts with the performance of the ordinary duties of the executive departments of the government, would be productive of nothing but mischief; and we are quite satisfied that such a power was never intended to be given to them.
Page 1970 - The director shall adopt reasonable and proper rules to govern the procedure of the divisions and to regulate and provide for the nature and extent of the proofs and evidence and the method of taking and furnishing the same...
Page 1966 - Act; fix their compensation in accordance with the provisions of the Classification Act of 1949, as amended...
Page 1965 - Appeals it may not thereafter be reopened and allowed and no claim based upon the same factual basis shall be considered except that when subsequent to such disallowance new and material evidence in the form of official reports from the proper service department is secured, the Board of Veterans' Appeals may authorize the reopening of the claim and review of the former decision.
Page 1968 - If suit is seasonably begun and fails for defect in process, or for other reasons not affecting the merits, a new action, if one lies, may be brought within a year though the period of limitations has elapsed.

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