
    L.J. THURMAN, Claimant-Appellant, v. Gordon H. MANSFIELD, Acting Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Respondent-Appellee.
    No. 2007-7142.
    United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.
    Oct. 5, 2007.
    Heather R. Cessna, ABS Legal Advocates, P.A. of Lawrence, Kansas, for claimant-appellant. On the brief was Virginia A. Girard-Brady.
    Martin F. Hockey, Jr., Assistant Director, Commercial Litigation Branch, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, of Washington, DC, for Respondent-Appellee. With him on the brief were Peter D. Keisler, Acting Attorney General, Jeanne E. Davidson, Director, and J. Reid Prouty, Trial Attorney. Also on the brief were Michael J. Timinski, Deputy Assistant General Counsel, and Martie Adelman, Attorney, United States Department of Veterans Affair, of Washington, DC.
    Before MAYER, Circuit Judge, JACOBS, Chief Judge , and PROST, Circuit Judge.
    
      
       Honorable Dennis Jacobs, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, sitting by designation.
    
   Judgment

PER CURIAM:

This CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

ORDERED and ADJUDGED:

AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.  