Court Opinion

ID: 9948912
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2024-03-08 15:01:12.571632+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:26:19.726780
License: Public Domain

Case: 22-2179   Document: 40     Page: 1   Filed: 03/08/2024

        NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.

   United States Court of Appeals
       for the Federal Circuit
                 ______________________

                LESTER L. DEAN, JR.,
                  Claimant-Appellant

                            v.

       DENIS MCDONOUGH, SECRETARY OF
              VETERANS AFFAIRS,
               Respondent-Appellee
              ______________________

                       2022-2179
                 ______________________

     Appeal from the United States Court of Appeals for
 Veterans Claims in No. 21-2920, Judge Amanda L. Mere-
 dith.
                 ______________________

                      JUDGMENT
                 ______________________

    KENNETH M. CARPENTER, Law Offices of Carpenter
 Chartered, Topeka, KS, argued for claimant-appellant.

     MEREDYTH COHEN HAVASY, Commercial Litigation
 Branch, Civil Division, United States Department of Jus-
 tice, Washington, DC, argued for respondent-appellee.
 Also represented by BRIAN M. BOYNTON, WILLIAM JAMES
 GRIMALDI, PATRICIA M. MCCARTHY, EVAN WISSER; BRIAN D.
 GRIFFIN, SAMANTHA ANN SYVERSON, Office of General
Case: 22-2179     Document: 40   Page: 2   Filed: 03/08/2024

 Counsel, United States Department of Veterans Affairs,
 Washington, DC.
                 ______________________

 THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

 ORDERED and ADJUDGED:

     PER CURIAM (PROST, STOLL, and STARK, Circuit
 Judges).
                AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.

                         ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT

March 8, 2024
    Date