       NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.


  United States Court of Appeals
      for the Federal Circuit
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               NICHOLAS HINDMAN,
                 Plaintiff-Appellant

                           v.

                  UNITED STATES,
                  Defendant-Appellee
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                      2017-2066
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    Appeal from the United States Court of Federal
Claims in No. 1:16-cv-00257-SGB, Chief Judge Susan G.
Braden.
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                     JUDGMENT
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    TIMOTHY A. BRIDGE, Saint Charles, IL, argued for
plaintiff-appellant.

     JIMMY MCBIRNEY, 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., STEVEN J. GILLINGHAM.
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THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

ORDERED and ADJUDGED:



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

                      ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT


 April 11, 2018               /s/ Peter R. Marksteiner
     Date                     Peter R. Marksteiner
                              Clerk of Court
