       NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.


  United States Court of Appeals
      for the Federal Circuit
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                 JOHN A. GERACE,
                 Claimant-Appellant

                           v.

 DAVID J. SHULKIN, SECRETARY OF VETERANS
                   AFFAIRS,
              Respondent-Appellee
             ______________________

                      2017-1562
                ______________________

    Appeal from the United States Court of Appeals for
Veterans Claims in No. 15-491, Judge Coral Wong Pi-
etsch.
                ______________________

                     JUDGMENT
                ______________________

   JOSHUA SIBBLE, Baker Botts, LLP, New York, NY, ar-
gued for claimant-appellant.

    RENEE BURBANK, Commercial Litigation Branch, Civil
Division, United States Department of Justice, Washing-
ton, DC, argued for respondent-appellee. Also represent-
ed by CHAD A. READLER, ROBERT E. KIRSCHMAN, JR.,
CLAUDIA BURKE; BRIAN D. GRIFFIN, AMANDA BLACKMON,
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 (LOURIE, O’MALLEY, and REYNA, Circuit
Judges).
           AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.

                      ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT


 February 7, 2018             /s/ Peter R. Marksteiner
        Date                  Peter R. Marksteiner
                              Clerk of Court
