NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.

United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ______________________

FRANKLIN GILL, Claimant-Appellant,

v.

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

2014-7061 ______________________

Appeal from the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims in No. 12-3428, Chief Judge Bruce E. Kasold, Judge Coral Wong Pietsch, Judge Robert N. Davis. ______________________

JUDGMENT ______________________

KENNETH M. CARPENTER, Carpenter, Chartered, of Topeka, Kansas, argued for claimant-appellant.

ERIC P. BRUSKIN, Trial 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 Assistant General Counsel, and AMANDA BLACKMON, 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 (MOORE, WALLACH, and CHEN, Circuit Judges). AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.

ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT

January 9, 2015 /s/ Daniel E. O’Toole Date Daniel E. O’Toole Clerk of Court