       NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.


  United States Court of Appeals
      for the Federal Circuit
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               ELIZABETH SHAPIRO,
                 Petitioner-Appellant,

                           v.

      SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN
                  SERVICES,
              Respondent-Appellee.
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                      2012-5152
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    Appeal from the United States Court of Federal
Claims in No. 99-VV-0552, Judge Francis M. Allegra.
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                     JUDGMENT
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   CLIFFORD J. SHOEMAKER, Shoemaker, Gentry &
Knickelbein, of Vienna, Virginia, argued for petitioner-
appellant.


    LYNN E. RICCIARDELLA, Trial Attorney, Torts Branch,
Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, of
Washington, DC, argued for respondent-appellee. On the
brief were STUART F. DELERY, Principal Deputy Assistant
Attorney General, RUPA BHATTACHARYYA, Director,
VINCENT J. MATNAOSKI, Deputy Director, and GABRIELLE
M. FIELDING, Assistant Director.
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THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

ORDERED and ADJUDGED:

PER CURIAM (O’MALLEY, SCHALL, and WALLACH, Circuit
Judges).

           AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.

                      ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT


May 8, 2013               /s/ Jan Horbaly
  Date                        Jan Horbaly
                               Clerk
