On October 13, 2011, Carmen Cardona, a U.S. Navy veteran, filed a lawsuit in the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims seeking disability benefits for her wife that the Veterans Administration and the Board of Veterans Appeals had denied. Cardona is represented by the Yale Law School Legal Services Clinic. At the request of BLAG, which is defending the government's action, and over Cardona's objections, the court postponed oral argument in "Cardona v. Shinseki" pending the Supreme Court's disposition of writs of certiorari in other DOMA cases.