       NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.


  United States Court of Appeals
      for the Federal Circuit
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                JOSEPH MANDELL,
                 Plaintiff-Appellant,

                           v.

                  UNITED STATES,
                  Defendant-Appellee.
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                      2013-5092
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    Appeal from the United States Court of Federal
Claims in No. 13-CV-0188, Judge Thomas C. Wheeler.
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                     JUDGMENT
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   JOSEPH MANDELL, of Oceanport, New Jersey, pro se.

    JENNIFER E. LAGRANGE, Trial Attorney, Commercial
Litigation Branch, Civil Division, United States Depart-
ment of Justice, of Washington, DC, for defendant-
appellee. With her on the brief were STUART F. DELERY,
Acting Assistant Attorney General, JEANNE E. DAVIDSON,
Director, and STEVEN J. GILLINGHAM, Assistant Director.
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THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

ORDERED and ADJUDGED:



   PER CURIAM (DYK, MOORE, and WALLACH, Circuit
Judges).
           AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.

                      ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT


October 15, 2013           /s/ Daniel E. O’Toole
     Date                      Daniel E. O’Toole
                               Clerk
