NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.

United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ______________________

RAYMOND C. TURCK, Claimant-Appellant,

v.

SLOAN D. GIBSON, Acting Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Respondent-Appellee. ______________________

2014-7028 ______________________

Appeal from the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims in No. 12-1174, Judge Mary J. Schoelen. ______________________

JUDGMENT ______________________

MAXWELL D. KINMAN, Alexander Webb & Kinman, of Mason, Ohio, argued for claimant-appellant.

WILLIAM J. GRIMALDI, Attorney, Commercial Litiga- tion Branch, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, of Washington, DC, argued for respondent- appellee. With him 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, and MEGHAN D. ALPHONSO, Attorney, United States Department of Veterans Affairs, of Washington, DC. ______________________

THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

ORDERED and ADJUDGED:

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

ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT

June 20, 2014 /s/ Daniel E. O’Toole Date Daniel E. O’Toole Clerk of Court