       NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.


  United States Court of Appeals
      for the Federal Circuit
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    ESTATE OF JASON ALLEN SMALLWOOD,
              Plaintiff-Appellant

                           v.

                  UNITED STATES,
                  Defendant-Appellee
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                      2017-1915
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    Appeal from the United States Court of Federal
Claims in No. 1:16-cv-00700-CFL, Judge Charles F.
Lettow.
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                     JUDGMENT
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    JONATHAN BRYAN KELLY, Jonathan Kelly & Associ-
ates, Raleigh, NC, argued for plaintiff-appellant.

    NATHANAEL YALE, Commercial Litigation Branch,
Civil Division, United States Department of Justice,
Washington, DC, argued for defendant-appellee. Also
represented by CHAD A. READLER, ROBERT E. KIRSCHMAN,
JR., MARTIN F. HOCKEY, JR.; SHESSY DAVIS, Litigation
Division, United States Army Judge Advocate General's
Corps, Ft. Belvoir, VA; WILLIAM KLOTZBUCHER, Office of
General Counsel, United States Department of Veterans
Affairs, Washington, DC.
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THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

ORDERED and ADJUDGED:



       PER CURIAM (DYK, WALLACH, and CHEN, Circuit Judg-
es).
             AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.

                        ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT


  April 5, 2018                /s/ Peter R. Marksteiner
     Date                      Peter R. Marksteiner
                               Clerk of Court
