(SCOTUS Blog)- Issue: Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in holding that 38 U.S.C. § 511, which provides that the Secretary of Veterans Affairs “shall decide all questions of law and fact necessary to a decision by the Secretary under a law that affects the provision of benefits,” and that “the decision of the Secretary as to any such question shall be final and conclusive and may not be reviewed by any other official or by any other court,” precludes the district court’s jurisdiction over systemic challenges to the United States Department of Veterans Affairs’ failures to provide timely medical benefits and to timely resolve claims for service-connected death and disability benefits.
