
    Karen S. McDOWELL, Claimant-Appellant, v. Eric K. SHINSEKI, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Respondent-Appellee.
    No. 2010-7044.
    United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.
    Oct. 7, 2010.
    Douglas J. Rosinski, Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C., of Columbia, SC, argued for claimant-appellant.
    Martin F. Hockey, Jr., Assistant Director, Commercial Litigation Branch, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, of Washington, DC, argued for respondent-appellee. With him on the brief were Tony West, Assistant Attorney General, Jeanne E. Davidson, Director, and Meredyth Cohen Havasy, Trial Attorney. Of counsel on the brief were David J. Barrans, Deputy Assistant General Counsel, and Martie S. Adelman, Attorney, Office of the General Counsel, United States Department of Veterans Affairs, of Washington, DC.
    DYK, MAYER, and MOORE, Circuit Judges.
   JUDGMENT

PER CURIAM.

THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is Ordered and Adjudged:

AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.  