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Garland Williamson v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, No. 2024-1770 · judgment July 16, 2025
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Question presented
Whether a federal appellate court may affirm the dismissal of a statutory claim without interpreting the governing statute, without applying the Administrative Procedure Act’s requirement that courts “decide all relevant questions of law,” 5 U.S.C. § 706, and without enforcing mandate-fixed factual predicates established earlier in the same litigation—where the court below treated statutory meaning as irrelevant and relied on factual premises that contradict the litigation’s binding mandate.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Garland O. Williamson
For respondent
D. John Sauer
Solicitor General
Proceedings
- Feb 23 2026Petition DENIED.
- Feb 04 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/20/2026.
- Jan 29 2026Waiver of right of respondent Collins, Douglas to respond filed.
- Dec 19 2025Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due February 4, 2026)
- Oct 06 2025Application (25A392) granted by The Chief Justice extending the time to file until January 17, 2026.
- Sep 27 2025Application (25A392) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from November 18, 2025 to January 17, 2026, submitted to The Chief Justice.