Court Opinion

ID: 2757946
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2014-12-05 16:01:08.72368+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:38:11.307924
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NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.

  United States Court of Appeals
      for the Federal Circuit
                ______________________

                 LARRY A. BRUCE,
                 Claimant-Appellant,

                           v.

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

                      2013-7146
                ______________________

   Appeal from the United States Court of Appeals for
Veterans Claims in No. 11-1911, Judge Lawrence B.
Hagel.
               ______________________

                     JUDGMENT
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    SAMANTHA J. KATZE, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP,
of New York, New York, argued for claimant-appellant.
With her on the brief was ANDREW L. MORRISON.

    ALLISON KIDD-MILLER, Senior Trial Counsel, Com-
mercial Litigation Branch, Civil Division, United States
Department of Justice, of Washington, DC, argued for
respondent-appellee. With her on the brief were STUART
F. DELERY, Assistant Attorney General, ROBERT E.
KIRSCHMAN, JR., Director, and MARTIN F. HOCKEY, JR.,
Assistant Director. Of counsel on the brief were DAVID J.
BARRANS, Acting Assistant General Counsel, and MARTIE
ADELMAN, Attorney, United States Department of Veter-
ans Affairs, of Washington, DC.
                 ______________________

THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

ORDERED and ADJUDGED:

       PER CURIAM (LOURIE, DYK, and REYNA, Circuit Judg-
es).
             AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.

                         ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT

   December 5, 2014                 /s/ Daniel E. O’Toole
       Date                         Daniel E. O’Toole
                                    Clerk of Court