NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.
United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
2006-7008
LANDA P. MACDONALD,
Claimant-Appellant,
v.
R. JAMES NICHOLSON, Secretary of Veterans Affairs,
Respondent-Appellee.
Mark R. Lippman, The Veterans Law Group, of La Jolla, California, for claimant-
appellant.
Domenique Kirchner, Senior Trial Counsel, Commercial Litigation Branch, Civil
Division, United States Department of Justice, of Washington, DC, for respondent-
appellee. With her on the brief was Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General,
Jeanne E. Davidson, Director, and Todd M. Hughes, Assistant Director. Of counsel was
Deborah A. Bynum, Assistant Director. Of counsel on the brief were David J. Barrans,
Assistant General Counsel, and Ethan G. Kalett, Attorney, United States Department of
Veterans Affairs, of Washington, DC.
Appealed from: United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims
Judge Robert N. Davis
NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.
United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
2006-7008
LANDA P. MACDONALD,
Claimant-Appellant,
v.
R. JAMES NICHOLSON, Secretary of Veterans Affairs,
Respondent-Appellee.
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DECIDED: September 10, 2007
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Before MICHEL, Chief Judge, NEWMAN and MOORE, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM.
Landa P. MacDonald (“MacDonald”) appeals from a decision of the United States
Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims affirming the denial of MacDonald’s service-
connection claim for the death of her veteran-husband. On appeal, MacDonald
presents a single issue, namely, whether an adverse presumption in favor of the
claimant should be applied when the veteran’s service records have been lost by the
Government. MacDonald, however, conceded both before this court as well as the
court below that we previously rejected such an adverse presumption in Cromer v.
Nicholson, 455 F.3d 1346 (Fed. Cir. 2006). MacDonald notes only that Cromer is “not
yet final, as a petition for a writ of certiorari is currently pending before the Supreme
Court.” After MacDonald filed her opening brief, the Supreme Court denied the petition
in Cromer. Cromer v. Nicholson, 127 S. Ct. 2265 (2007). Because MacDonald
concedes that Cromer controls the outcome of her appeal, we affirm.
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