WHEATON v. SHINSEKI

No. 2012-7162.

RICHARD A. WHEATON, Claimant-Appellant, v. ERIC K. SHINSEKI, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.

Decided: October 15, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

DAN CURRY , Randles, Mata & Brown, LLC, of Kansas City, Missouri, for claimant-appellant.

L. MISHA PREHEIM , Senior Trial Counsel, Commercial Litigation Branch, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, of Washington, DC, for respondent-appellee. With him on the brief were STUART F. DELERY , Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, JEANNE E. DAVIDSON , Director, MARTIN F. HOCKEY, JR. , Assistant Director. Of counsel on the brief were DAVID J. BARRANS , Deputy Assistant General Counsel, and AMANDA R. BLACKMON , Attorney, United States Department of Veterans Affairs, of Washington, DC.

Before NEWMAN, PLAGER, and TARANTO,


This disposition is nonprecedential.

PER CURIAM.

Mr. Richard Wheaton appeals the decision of the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, Wheaton v. Shinseki, No. 11-0584 (Vet. App. Mar. 26, 2012), which affirmed the decision of the Board of Veterans Appeals that there was not Clear and Unmistakable Error ("CUE") in the Regional Office's findings relating to his claim for service connection asbestosis.

The Regional Office ("RO") had found in...

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