# Veterans for Common Sense v. Shinseki Oral Argument

U.S. Court of Appeals - 288346-1-DVD - Veterans for Common Sense v. Shinseki Oral Argument - The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral argument in Veterans for Common Sense v. Shinseki. Veterans for Common Sense, and co-plaintiff Veterans United for Truth, asked the Court to order the Department of Veterans Affairs to reform the way it deals with disability claims for post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury. In a suit filed in July 2007 a lower court ruled that the judicial branch does not have the authority to order the VA to provide timely medical care. Veterans for Common Sense v. Shinseki, Case 08-16728, was heard by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals at 9:30 a.m. PT on August 12, 2009, in San Francisco. The suit was first filed against Secretary Nicholson, the successively against Secretaries Peake and Shinseki. Filmed by C-SPAN. Non-commercial use only. For more information, see http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/288346-1

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 2009
- By: U.S. Court of Appeals
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/org.c-span.288346-1)
- Licence or status: [CC0 1.0](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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