NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.

United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ______________________

MELVIN N. O'HARA, Claimant-Appellant,

v.

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

2014-7072 ______________________

Appeal from the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims in No. 12-3272, Judge Alan G. Lance, Sr. ______________________

JUDGMENT ______________________

MARK R. LIPPMAN, The Veterans Law Group, of La Jolla, California, argued for claimant-appellant.

MARTIN M. TOMLINSON, 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 MARTIN F. HOCKEY, JR., Assistant Director. Of counsel on the brief were Y. KEN LEE, Deputy Assis- tant General Counsel, and MARTIE ADELMAN, Attorney, United States Department of Veterans Affairs, of Wash- ington, DC. ______________________

THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

ORDERED and ADJUDGED:

PER CURIAM (PROST, Chief Judge, O’MALLEY and CHEN, Circuit Judges).

AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.

ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT

December 11, 2014 /s/ Daniel E. O’Toole Date Daniel E. O’Toole Clerk of Court