       NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.


  United States Court of Appeals
      for the Federal Circuit
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                ANTHONY C. MCKAY,
                 Claimant-Appellant

                           v.

     ROBERT A. MCDONALD, SECRETARY OF
            VETERANS AFFAIRS,
               Respondent-Appellee
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                      2016-1351
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   Appeal from the United States Court of Appeals for
Veterans Claims in No. 14-2848, Judge Bruce E. Kasold.
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                     JUDGMENT
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   KENNETH M. CARPENTER, Law Offices of Carpenter
Chartered, Topeka, KS, for claimant-appellant.

    AGATHA KOPROWSKI, Commercial Litigation Branch,
Civil Division, United States Department of Justice,
Washington, DC, for respondent-appellee. Also represent-
ed by BENJAMIN C. MIZER, ROBERT E. KIRSCHMAN, JR.,
SCOTT D. AUSTIN; JONATHAN KRISCH, BRIAN D. GRIFFIN,
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 (PROST, Chief Judge, NEWMAN and
LOURIE, Circuit Judges).
           AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.

                      ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT


 December 9, 2016                /s/ Peter R. Marksteiner
      Date                       Peter R. Marksteiner
                                 Clerk of Court
