United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ______________________

VINCENT CURTIS CONYERS, Claimant-Appellant

v.

DENIS MCDONOUGH, SECRETARY OF VETERANS AFFAIRS, Respondent-Appellee ______________________

2023-1525 ______________________

Appeal from the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims in No. 17-4423, Judge Coral Wong Pi- etsch, Judge Grant Jaquith, Judge Joseph L. Toth. ______________________

Decided: January 30, 2024 ______________________

V. C. CONYERS, Uniondale, NY, pro se.

MILES JARRAD WRIGHT, Commercial Litigation Branch, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Wash- ington, DC, for respondent-appellee. Also represented by BRIAN M. BOYNTON, ERIC P. BRUSKIN, PATRICIA M. MCCARTHY; MICHELLE BERNSTEIN, BRIAN D. GRIFFIN, Of- fice of General Counsel, United States Department of Vet- erans Affairs, Washington, DC. ______________________ Case: 23-1525 Document: 26 Pa