This document is an errata issued by the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Appeal No. 2007-7196, Vernon D. Williams v. James B. Peake, M.D., Secretary of Veterans Affairs. The court directed a single correction to the published opinion: on page 4, line 10, the phrase “Federal Register” was to be deleted and replaced with “Code of Federal Regulations.” Because the filing is an errata rather than a merits opinion, it does not change the outcome or legal analysis of the underlying case. Its significance is limited to correcting the authoritative text so that later readers cite the proper regulatory source.

An errata may correct a published opinion’s text without changing the underlying merits or holding.

Use the corrected opinion text when citing or relying on Williams v. Peake; the errata fixes a regulatory citation, not the substantive result.

It preserves the accuracy of the Federal Circuit’s published reasoning and prevents practitioners from relying on an erroneous citation. In appellate work, even small textual corrections can matter when an opinion is used as authority.

An advocate cites Williams v. Peake for a proposition and checks the published opinion against the errata before quoting the regulatory source, ensuring the brief reflects the corrected language.

Treat the errata as part of the authoritative record and verify that any quotation from the opinion uses the corrected term, “Code of Federal Regulations.”

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