
    Kevin W. WHITING, Claimant-Appellant, v. James B. PEAKE, M.D., Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Respondent-Appellee.
    No. 2007-7265.
    United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.
    May 8, 2008.
    Kenneth M. Carpenter, Carpenter, Chartered, of Topeka, Kansas, argued for claimant-appellant.
    
      Hillary A. Stern, Senior Trial Attorney, Commercial Litigation Branch, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, of Washington, DC, argued for respondent-appellee. With her on the brief were Jeffrey S. Bucholtz, Acting Assistant Attorney General; Jeanne E. Davidson, Director; and Martin F. Hockey, Jr., Assistant Director.
    Before MICHEL, Chief Judge, PROST, Circuit Judge, and HOCHBERG , District Judge.
    
      
       Honorable Faith Hochberg, District Judge, United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, sitting by designation.
    
   Judgment

PER CURIAM.

This CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

ORDERED and ADJUDGED:

AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.  