Case: 20-1625 Document: 65 Page: 1 Filed: 04/08/2021

NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.

United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ______________________ ORLANDO GUADALUPE, Claimant-Appellant v. DENIS MCDONOUGH, SECRETARY OF VETERANS AFFAIRS, Respondent-Appellee ______________________ 2020-1625 ______________________ Appeal from the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims in No. 17-747, Senior Judge William A.

Moorman. ______________________ JUDGMENT ______________________ JOHN D. NILES, Carpenter Chartered, Topeka, KS, ar- gued for claimant-appellant. Also represented by KATY CLEMENS, HUGH MCCLEAN, Bob Parsons Veterans Advo- cacy Clinic, University of Baltimore School of Law, Balti- more, MD. REBECCA SARAH KRUSER, Commercial Litigation Branch, Civil Division, United States Department of Jus- tice, Washington, DC, argued for respondent-appellee.

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Also represented by CLAUDIA BURKE, JEFFREY B. CLARK, ROBERT EDWARD KIRSCHMAN, JR.; BRIAN D. GRIFFIN, JONATHAN KRISCH, Office of General Counsel, United States Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, DC. ______________________ THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is ORDERED and ADJUDGED: PER CURIAM (WALLACH, MAYER, and HUGHES, Circuit Judges).

AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.

ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT

April 8, 2021 /s/ Peter R. Marksteiner Date Peter R. Marksteiner Clerk of Court