Opinion
2011-7186
08-20-2012
LARRY C. JACKSON, Claimant-Appellant, v. ERIC K. SHINSEKI, SECRETARY OF VETERANS AFFAIRS, Respondent-Appellee.
KENNETH M. CARPENTER, Carpenter, Chartered, of Topeka, Kansas, argued for claimant-appellant. SCOTT D. AUSTIN, Assistant Director, Commercial Litigation Branch, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, of Washington, DC, argued for respondent-appellee. On the brief were STUART F. DELERY, Acting Assistant Attorney General, JEANNE E. DAVIDSON, Director, BRIAN M. SIMKIN, Assistant Director, and ELIZABETH M. HOSFORD, Senior Trial Counsel. Of counsel on the brief were MICHAEL J. TIMINSKI, Deputy Assistant General Counsel, and AMANDA R. BLACKMON, Attorney, United States Department of Veteran Affairs, of Washington, DC.
NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.
Appeal from the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims in Case No. 09-3538, Judge Bruce E. Kasold.
JUDGMENT
KENNETH M. CARPENTER, Carpenter, Chartered, of Topeka, Kansas, argued for claimant-appellant.
SCOTT D. AUSTIN, Assistant Director, Commercial Litigation Branch, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, of Washington, DC, argued for respondent-appellee. On the brief were STUART F. DELERY, Acting Assistant Attorney General, JEANNE E. DAVIDSON, Director, BRIAN M. SIMKIN, Assistant Director, and ELIZABETH M. HOSFORD, Senior Trial Counsel. Of counsel on the brief were MICHAEL J. TIMINSKI, Deputy Assistant General Counsel, and AMANDA R. BLACKMON, Attorney, United States Department of Veteran Affairs, of Washington, DC. THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is ORDERED and ADJUDGED:
PER CURIAM (NEWMAN, LOURIE, and O'MALLEY, Circuit Judges).
AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.
ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT
________________________
Jan Horbaly
Clerk