             NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.


      United States Court of Appeals
          for the Federal Circuit
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                          JOAN CAVES,
                        Petitioner-Appellant,

                                 v.

      SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES,
                  Respondent-Appellee.
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                            2011-5108
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   Appeal from the United States Court of Federal Claims in case no.
07-VV-443, Judge Lynn J. Bush.
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                           JUDGMENT
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   SYLVIA CHIN-CAPLAN, Conway, Homer & Chin-Caplan, P.C., of
Boston, Massachusetts, argued for petitioner-appellant. On the brief
was RONALD C. HOMER.

    DARRYL R. WISHARD, Trial Attorney, Torts 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, MARK W. ROGERS, Acting Director,
VINCENT J. MATANOSKI, Acting Deputy Director, and CATHERINE E.
REEVES, Assistant Director.

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THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

ORDERED and ADJUDGED:

   PER CURIAM (LINN, CLEVENGER, and REYNA, Circuit Judges).


                 AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.


                      ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT


February 14, 2012      /s/ Jan Horbaly
    Date                   Jan Horbaly
                             Clerk
