Court Opinion

ID: 799720
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2012-05-11 15:12:45+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:31:16.418070
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NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.

United States Court of Appeals
    for the Federal Circuit
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                 DALE O. DUNLAP,
                 Claimant-Appellant,

                           v.

 ERIC K. SHINSEKI, SECRETARY OF VETERANS
                   AFFAIRS,
              Respondent-Appellee.
              ____________________

                      2011-7133
                ______________________

   Appeal from the United States Court of Appeals for
Veterans Claims in No. 08-3823, Judge Alan G. Lance, Sr.
                ______________________

                     JUDGMENT
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   KENNETH M. CARPENTER, Carpenter, Chartered, of
Topeka, Kansas, argued for claimant-appellant.

    ALEX P. HONTOS, Trial Attorney, Commercial
Litigation Branch, Civil Division, United States
Department of Justice, of Washington, DC, argued for
respondent-appellee. With him on the brief were TONY
WEST, Assistant Attorney General, JEANNE E. DAVIDSON,
Director, and MARTIN F. HOCKEY, JR., Assistant Director.
Of counsel on the brief were DAVID J. BARRANS, Deputy
Assistant General Counsel, and DANA RAFFAELLI,
Attorney, United States Department of Veterans Affairs,
of Washington, DC.
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THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

ORDERED and ADJUDGED:

    PER CURIAM (RADER, Chief Judge, PLAGER and LINN,
Circuit Judges).

           AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.

                      ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT

 May 11, 2012                /s/ Jan Horbaly
    Date                        Jan Horbaly
                                    Clerk