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A veterans’ advocacy group is taking legal action in hopes of forcing the government to restore public access to decisions by each of the services’ discharge review boards. Failure to provide access to these records hinders advocates’ efforts to challenge adverse decisions in behalf of their veteran clients, the National Veterans Legal Services Program (NVLSP) contended in a lawsuit filed Jan. 2 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.