---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 U.S.C. § 7269"
title: "38"
title_heading: "Veterans’ Benefits"
number: "7269"
heading: "Publication of decisions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/38/7269"
units:
  - "Part V — Boards, Administrations, and Services"
  - "Chapter 72 — United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims"
  - "Subchapter II — Procedure"
---

# §7269. Publication of decisions

- (a) The Court of Appeals for [Veterans](/usc/38/101.md?p=2) Claims shall provide for the publication of decisions of the Court in such form and manner as may be best adapted for public information and use. The Court may make such exceptions, or may authorize the chief judge to make such exceptions, to the requirement for publication in the preceding sentence as may be appropriate.
- (b) Such authorized publication shall be competent evidence of the decisions of the Court of Appeals for [Veterans](/usc/38/101.md?p=2) Claims therein contained in all courts of the United States and of the several [States](/usc/38/101.md?p=20) without any further proof or authentication thereof.
- (c) Such publications shall be subject to sale in the same manner and upon the same terms as other public documents.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 100–687, div. A, title III, § 301(a), Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4118, § 4069; renumbered § 7269, Pub. L. 102–40, title IV, § 402(b)(1), May 7, 1991, 105 Stat. 238; amended Pub. L. 105–368, title V, § 512(a)(1), Nov. 11, 1998, 112 Stat. 3341.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1998—Subsecs. (a), (b). Pub. L. 105–368 substituted “Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims” for “Court of Veterans Appeals”.

1991—Pub. L. 102–40 renumbered section 4069 of this title as this section.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1998 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 105–368 effective on first day of first month beginning more than 90 days after Nov. 11, 1998, see section 513 of Pub. L. 105–368, set out as a note under section 7251 of this title.