       NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.


  United States Court of Appeals
      for the Federal Circuit
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                 JOHN S. MURPHY,
                 Claimant-Appellant,

                           v.

                 SLOAN D. GIBSON,
        Acting Secretary of Veterans Affairs,
                 Respondent-Appellee.
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                      2014-7035
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   Appeal from the United States Court of Appeals for
Veterans Claims in No. 12-880, Judge Mary J. Schoelen.
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                     JUDGMENT
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   MAXWELL D. KINMAN, Alexander Webb & Kinman, of
Mason, Ohio, argued for claimant-appellant.

    JAMES SWEET, Trial Attorney, Commercial Litigation
Branch, Civil Division, United States Department of
Justice, of Washington, DC, argued for respondent-
appellee. With him on the brief were STUART F. DELERY,
Assistant Attorney General, ROBERT E. KIRSCHMAN, JR.,
Director, and MARTIN F. HOCKEY, JR., Assistant Director.
Of counsel on the brief were MICHAEL J. TIMINSKI, Deputy
Assistant General Counsel, and DAVID BARRANS, Staff
Attorney, United States Department of Veterans Affairs,
of Washington, DC. Of counsel were MARTIE S. ADELMAN
and JOSHUA P. MAYER, Attorneys.
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THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

ORDERED and ADJUDGED:



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

                      ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT


   July 15, 2014                  /s/ Daniel E. O’Toole
       Date                       Daniel E. O’Toole
                                  Clerk of Court
