       NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.


  United States Court of Appeals
      for the Federal Circuit
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                CRISTA V. BENNER,
                 Claimant-Appellant,

                           v.

 ERIC K. SHINSEKI, Secretary of Veterans Affairs,
              Respondent-Appellee.
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                      2013-7098
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   Appeal from the United States Court of Appeals for
Veterans Claims in No. 11-2331, Judge Lawrence B.
Hagel.
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                     JUDGMENT
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   KENNETH M. CARPENTER, Carpenter, Chartered, of
Topeka, Kansas, argued for claimant-appellant.

    ELIZABETH A. SPECK, Trial Attorney, Commercial Liti-
gation Branch, Civil Division, United States Department
of Justice, of Washington, DC, argued for respondent-
appellee. With her on the brief were STUART F. DELERY,
Assistant Attorney General, BRYANT G. SNEE, Acting
Director, MARTIN F. HOCKEY, JR., Assistant Director, and
JAMES SWEET, Trial Attorney. Of counsel on the brief
were DAVID J. BARRANS, Deputy Assistant General Coun-
sel, and AMANDA BLACKMON, Staff Attorney, United
States Department of Veterans Affairs, of Washington,
DC.
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THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

ORDERED and ADJUDGED:



   PER CURIAM (MOORE, O’MALLEY, and CHEN, Circuit
Judges).
           AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.

                      ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT


  May 14, 2014                    /s/ Daniel E. O’Toole
      Date                        Daniel E. O’Toole
                                  Clerk of Court
