           NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.


    United States Court of Appeals
        for the Federal Circuit
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                    MICHAEL SINDRAM,
                     Claimant-Appellant,

                               v.

     ERIC K. SHINSEKI, SECRETARY OF VETERANS
                      AFFAIRS,
                  Respondent-Appellee.


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                          2011-7075
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    Appeal from the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans
Claims in no. 08-3676, Judge Lawrence B. Hagel.
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                         JUDGMENT
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   KATHERINE A. HELM, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, LLP, of
New York, New York, argued for claimant-appellant.

   SCOTT D. AUSTIN, Trial Attorney, Commercial Litigation
Branch, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, of
Washington, DC, argued for respondent-appellee. On the brief
were TONY WEST, Assistant Attorney General, JEANNE E.
DAVIDSON, Director, MARTIN F. HOCKEY, JR., Assistant Director,
and NELSON R. RICHARDS, Trial Attorney. Of counsel on the brief
were F. JOHN BRIZZI, JR., Deputy Assistant General Counsel, and
MICHELLE D. BERNSTEIN, 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 (LOURIE, MOORE, and WALLACH, Circuit Judges).

                AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.

                      ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT



March 7, 2012                /s/ Jan Horbaly
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