       NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.


  United States Court of Appeals
      for the Federal Circuit
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                JAMES P. MULLINS,
                 Claimant-Appellant

                           v.

    ROBERT WILKIE, ACTING SECRETARY OF
            VETERANS AFFAIRS,
             Respondent-Appellee
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                      2017-1325
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   Appeal from the United States Court of Appeals for
Veterans Claims in No. 15-440, Senior Judge Lawrence B.
Hagel.
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                     JUDGMENT
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   KENNETH M. CARPENTER, Law Offices of Carpenter
Chartered, Topeka, KS, argued for claimant-appellant.

    RETA EMMA BEZAK, Commercial Litigation Branch,
Civil Division, United States Department of Justice,
Washington, DC, argued for respondent-appellee. Also
represented by CHAD A. READLER, ROBERT E. KIRSCHMAN,
JR., MARTIN F. HOCKEY, JR.; BRIAN D. GRIFFIN, DEREK
SCADDEN, Office of General Counsel, United States De-
partment of Veterans Affairs, Washington, DC.
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THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

ORDERED and ADJUDGED:



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

                      ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT


 May 4, 2018                  /s/ Peter R. Marksteiner
    Date                      Peter R. Marksteiner
                              Clerk of Court
