Court Opinion

ID: 2742430
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2014-10-15 16:01:18.113236+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:52:21.514306
License: Public Domain

NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.

  United States Court of Appeals
      for the Federal Circuit
                ______________________

               PHILLIP O. BRANSON,
                 Claimant-Appellant,

                           v.

              ROBERT A. MCDONALD,
            Secretary of Veterans Affairs,
                 Respondent-Appellee.
                ______________________

                      2014-7033
                ______________________

   Appeal from the United States Court of Appeals for
Veterans Claims in No. 12-2539, Judge Alan G. Lance, Sr.
                ______________________

                     JUDGMENT
                ______________________

   MICHAEL A. LEONARD, of Wilmington, North Carolina,
argued for claimant-appellant.

    JENNIFER E. LAGRANGE, Trial Attorney, Commercial
Litigation Branch, Civil Division, United States Depart-
ment of Justice, of Washington, DC, argued for respond-
ent-appellee. With her on the brief were STUART F.
DELERY, Assistant Attorney General, ROBERT E.
KIRSCHMAN, JR., Director, and SCOTT D. AUSTIN, Assistant
Director. Of counsel on the brief were DAVID J. BARRANS,
Deputy Assistant General Counsel, United States De-
partment of Veterans Affairs, of Washington, DC, and
MARTIE ADELMAN, Attorney.
               ______________________

THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

ORDERED and ADJUDGED:

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

                      ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT

 October 15, 2014                 /s/ Daniel E. O’Toole
      Date                        Daniel E. O’Toole
                                  Clerk of Court