NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.

United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ______________________

QUARENO COLANTONIO, Claimant-Appellant,

v.

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

______________________

2012-7094 ______________________

Appeal from the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims in case no. 07-749, Judge Alan G. Lance, Sr. ______________________

JUDGMENT ______________________

SEAN A. RAVIN, Attorney at Law, of Washington, DC, 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 STUART F. DELERY, Acting Assistant Attorney General, JEANNE E. DAVIDSON, Director, and TODD M. HUGHES, Deputy Director. Of counsel on the brief were MICHAEL J. TIMINSKI, Deputy Assistant General Counsel, and CHRISTA A. SHRIBER, Staff Attorney, United States Department of Veterans Affairs, of Washington, DC. ______________________ THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

ORDERED and ADJUDGED:

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

AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.

ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT

January 15, 2013 /s/ Jan Horbaly Date Jan Horbaly Clerk