Opinion
2014-7033
10-15-2014
PHILLIP O. BRANSON, Claimant-Appellant, v. ROBERT A. MCDONALD, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Respondent-Appellee.
ICHAEL A. LEONARD, of Wilmington, North Carolina, argued for claimant-appellant. JENNIFER E. LAGRANGE, Trial Attorney, Commercial Litigation Branch, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, of Washington, DC, argued for respondent-appellee. With her on the brief were STUART F. DELERY, Assistant Attorney General, ROBERT E. KIRSCHMAN, JR., Director, and SCOTT D. AUSTIN, Assistant Director. Of counsel on the brief were DAVID J. BARRANS, Deputy Assistant General Counsel, United States Department of Veterans Affairs, of Washington, DC, and MARTIE ADELMAN, Attorney.
NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential. Appeal from the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims in No. 12-2539, Judge Alan G. Lance, Sr.
JUDGMENT
MICHAEL A. LEONARD, of Wilmington, North Carolina, argued for claimant-appellant. JENNIFER E. LAGRANGE, Trial Attorney, Commercial Litigation Branch, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, of Washington, DC, argued for respondent-appellee. With her on the brief were STUART F. DELERY, Assistant Attorney General, ROBERT E. KIRSCHMAN, JR., Director, and SCOTT D. AUSTIN, Assistant Director. Of counsel on the brief were DAVID J. BARRANS, Deputy Assistant General Counsel, United States Department of Veterans Affairs, of Washington, DC, and MARTIE ADELMAN, Attorney. THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is ORDERED and ADJUDGED:
PER CURIAM (LOURIE, DYK, and WALLACH, Circuit Judges).
AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.
ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT October 15, 2014
Date
/s/ Daniel E. O'Toole
Daniel E. O'Toole
Clerk of Court