Opinion
2013-7068
01-09-2014
BILLIE D. MCDONALD, Claimant-Appellant, v. ERIC K. SHINSEKI, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Defendant-Appellee.
KENNETH M. CARPENTER, Carpenter, Chartered, of Topeka, Kansas, argued for claimant-appellant. JAMES SWEET, Trial Attorney, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, of Washington, DC, argued for defendant-appellee. With him on the brief were STUART F. DELERY, Assistant Attorney General, JEANNE E. DAVIDSON, Director, and MARTIN F. HOCKEY, JR., Assistant Director. Of counsel on the brief were MICHAEL J. TIMINSKI, Deputy Assistant General Counsel, and AMANDA BLACKMON, Staff Attorney, United States Department of Veterans Affairs, of Washington, DC. Of counsel was SAVANNAH HUGHES CONNALLY, Attorney, United States Department of Veterans Affairs, of Washington, DC.
NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.
Appeal from the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims in No. 11-1697, Judge William A. Moorman.
JUDGMENT
KENNETH M. CARPENTER, Carpenter, Chartered, of Topeka, Kansas, argued for claimant-appellant.
JAMES SWEET, Trial Attorney, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, of Washington, DC, argued for defendant-appellee. With him on the brief were STUART F. DELERY, Assistant Attorney General, JEANNE E. DAVIDSON, Director, and MARTIN F. HOCKEY, JR., Assistant Director. Of counsel on the brief were MICHAEL J. TIMINSKI, Deputy Assistant General Counsel, and AMANDA BLACKMON, Staff Attorney, United States Department of Veterans Affairs, of Washington, DC. Of counsel was SAVANNAH HUGHES CONNALLY, Attorney, United States Department of Veterans Affairs, of Washington, DC. THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is ORDERED and ADJUDGED:
PER CURIAM (RADER, Chief Judge, PROST, and CHEN, Circuit Judges).
AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.
ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT
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Daniel E. O'Toole
Clerk of Court