Court Opinion

ID: 9948571
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2024-03-07 17:02:01.658885+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:30:50.986517
License: Public Domain

Case: 22-2213     Document: 31           Page: 1       Filed: 03/07/2024

        NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.

   United States Court of Appeals
       for the Federal Circuit
                   ______________________

             GREGORY DOUGLAS SMITH,
                 Claimant-Appellant

                                   v.

       DENIS MCDONOUGH, SECRETARY OF
              VETERANS AFFAIRS,
               Respondent-Appellee

            -------------------------------------------------

                     CAROLYN CLARK,
                     Claimant-Appellant

                                   v.

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

                    2022-2213, 2022-2225
                   ______________________

     Appeals from the United States Court of Appeals for
 Veterans Claims in No. 21-1244, Judge William S. Green-
 berg.
                 ______________________

                          JUDGMENT
Case: 22-2213     Document: 31   Page: 2    Filed: 03/07/2024

                   ______________________

     ELIZABETH HOLT ANDREWS, Troutman Pepper Hamil-
 ton Sanders LLP, Redwood City, CA, argued for all claim-
 ants-appellants. Also represented by JOHN D. NILES, KATY
 CLEMENS, Carpenter Chartered, Topeka, KS. Claimant-ap-
 pellant Gregory Douglas Smith also represented by
 TIMOTHY L. MCHUGH, Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders
 LLP, Richmond, VA; GWENDOLYN TAWRESEY Boston, MA.

     MATTHEW JUDE CARHART, Commercial Litigation
 Branch, Civil Division, United States Department of Jus-
 tice, Washington, DC, argued for respondent-appellee.
 Also represented by BRIAN M. BOYNTON, MARTIN F.
 HOCKEY, JR., PATRICIA M. MCCARTHY; CHRISTOPHER O.
 ADELOYE, Y. KEN LEE, Office of General Counsel, United
 States Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, DC.
                 ______________________

 THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

 ORDERED and ADJUDGED:

      PER CURIAM (MOORE, Chief Judge, LOURIE and DYK,
 Circuit Judges).
                AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.

                         ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT

March 7, 2024
    Date