NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.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