Court Opinion

ID: 624792
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2012-03-07 16:48:31+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:59:33.660725
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NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.

    United States Court of Appeals
        for the Federal Circuit
                    _____________________

                    MICHAEL SINDRAM,
                     Claimant-Appellant,

                               v.

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

                     ____________________

                          2011-7075
                    ______________________

    Appeal from the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans
Claims in no. 08-3676, Judge Lawrence B. Hagel.
                    ______________________

                         JUDGMENT
                    ______________________

   KATHERINE A. HELM, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, LLP, of
New York, New York, argued for claimant-appellant.

   SCOTT D. AUSTIN, Trial Attorney, Commercial Litigation
Branch, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, of
Washington, DC, argued for respondent-appellee. On the brief
were TONY WEST, Assistant Attorney General, JEANNE E.
DAVIDSON, Director, MARTIN F. HOCKEY, JR., Assistant Director,
and NELSON R. RICHARDS, Trial Attorney. Of counsel on the brief
were F. JOHN BRIZZI, JR., Deputy Assistant General Counsel, and
MICHELLE D. BERNSTEIN, Attorney, United States Department of
Veterans Affairs, of Washington, DC.
                      ______________________
THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

ORDERED and ADJUDGED:

   PER CURIAM (LOURIE, MOORE, and WALLACH, Circuit Judges).

                AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.

                      ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT

March 7, 2012                /s/ Jan Horbaly
    Date                        Jan Horbaly
                                   Clerk