# Willie O. Sanders v. Anthony J. Principi

> United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims · September 20, 2003 · 17 Vet. App. 232

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9502368

## Case

- **Full name:** Willie O. SANDERS, Appellant, v. Anthony J. PRINCIPI, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Appellee
- **Court:** United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims
- **Decided:** September 20, 2003
- **Citations:** 17 Vet. App. 232; 2003 WL 21980359
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Kramer
- **Judges:** Kramer, Ivers, Greene
- **Cited by:** 1 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

KRAMER, Chief Judge,
concurring:
Assuming that, on remand, the Board of Veterans’ Appeals (Board) determines that there is no duty to assist the appellant by providing the medical examination in question, the Board should nevertheless address with an adequate statement of reasons or bases the following: whether the *237 hearing officer promised the appellant a VA examination (see Record at 169-72, 175-76); whether the hearing officer ,was authorized to promise an examination and, if so, whether that authorization could have been rescinded by another VA employee; whether the appellant reasonably relied to his detriment on the hearing officer’s statements; and, assuming that he could have reasonably relied on those statements, what is the significance of any such reliance in the context of this case. See Gilbert v. Derwinski, 1 Vet.App. 49, 56-57 (1990).

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