Citation Nr: 18142425
Decision Date: 10/15/18	Archive Date: 10/15/18

DOCKET NO. 13-03 900
DATE:	October 15, 2018
ORDER
Entitlement to service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), major depressive disorder, and passive-aggressive personality disorder is dismissed.
FINDING OF FACT
A December 2015 rating decision granted service connection for major depressive disorder, claimed a as a psychiatric disability.
CONCLUSION OF LAW
As the benefit sought on appeal has been granted in full, there remains no question of law or fact involving the appeal of service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, and the appeal is dismissed.  38 U.S.C. § 7105(d)(5).
REASONS AND BASES FOR FINDING AND CONCLUSION
The Veteran served on active duty from August 1972 to August 1973.
In July 2015, the Board of Veterans’ Appeals (Board) reopened the Veteran’s claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include PTSD, major depressive disorder, and a passive-aggressive personality disorder; and remanded the claim for further development.
Entitlement to service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include PTSD, major depressive disorder, and passive-aggressive personality disorder
In a July 2010 rating decision, the Veteran was denied entitlement to service connection for PTSD, major depressive disorder, and passive-aggressive personality disorder.  The Board recharacterized the issues as entitlement to service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include PTSD, depressive disorder, and passive-aggressive disorder in July 2015.  Clemons v. Shinseki, 23 Vet. App. 1 (2009).  Subsequent to the Board’s July 2015 remand, the Agency of Original Jurisdiction (AOJ) granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, specifically major depressive disorder, in a December 2015 rating decision.  In an August 2018 Informal Hearing Brief, the Veteran’s representative reaffirmed the Veteran was no longer seeking service connection for any additional psychiatric disorders and the Veteran’s appeal had been granted in full.  



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Accordingly, the Veteran’s appeal as to this matter has been rendered moot, as the benefit sought on appeal have been fully granted.  See Baughman v. Derwinski, 1 Vet. App. 563, 566 (1991).  Because there remains no case or controversy concerning whether the Veteran is entitled to the benefit sought, as the issue has been granted, the appeal with respect to this issue is dismissed.  38 U.S.C. § 7105(d)(5).
 
Evan Deichert
Acting Veterans Law Judge
Board of Veterans’ Appeals
ATTORNEY FOR THE BOARD	B. N. Quarles, Associate Counsel