       NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.


  United States Court of Appeals
      for the Federal Circuit
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                MURVEL L. BROWN,
                 Claimant-Appellant

                           v.

    ROBERT WILKIE, ACTING SECRETARY OF
            VETERANS AFFAIRS,
             Respondent-Appellee
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                      2017-1286
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   Appeal from the United States Court of Appeals for
Veterans Claims in No. 14-4312, Judge Mary J. Schoelen.
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                     JUDGMENT
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   KENNETH M. CARPENTER, Law Offices of Carpenter
Chartered, Topeka, KS, argued for claimant-appellant.

    ADAM E. LYONS, Commercial Litigation Branch, Civil
Division, United States Department of Justice, Washing-
ton, DC, argued for respondent-appellee. Also represent-
ed by CHAD A. READLER, ROBERT E. KIRSCHMAN, JR.,
MARTIN F. HOCKEY, JR.; BRIAN D. GRIFFIN, MEGHAN
ALPHONSO, Office of General Counsel, United States
Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, DC.
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THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

ORDERED and ADJUDGED:



   PER CURIAM (NEWMAN, LOURIE, and REYNA, Circuit
Judges).
           AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.

                       ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT


 May 11, 2018                   /s/ Peter R. Marksteiner
    Date                        Peter R. Marksteiner
                                Clerk of Court
