             NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.


      United States Court of Appeals
          for the Federal Circuit
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                         JAMES ALSTON,
                            Petitioner,

                                  v.

            SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION,
                        Respondent.
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                             2010-3007
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 Petition for review of an arbitrator’s decision in BW-2009-R-0004, by
                            Barry E. Shapiro.
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                            JUDGMENT
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   JAMES W. RICHARD, II, AGE, Local 1923, of Baltimore, Maryland,
argued for petitioner.

    SCOTT D. AUSTIN, Senior Trial Attorney, Commercial Litigation
Branch, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, of
Washington, DC, argued for respondent. With him on the brief were
TONY WEST, Assistant Attorney General, JEANNE E. DAVIDSON,
Director, and BRIAN M. SIMKIN, Assistant Director. Of counsel on the
brief was APARNA V. SRINIVASAN, Attorney, Office of the General
Counsel, Social Security Administration, of Baltimore, Maryland.
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THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

ORDERED and ADJUDGED:

   PER CURIAM (NEWMAN, MAYER, and PROST, Circuit Judges).
                AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.

                    ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT


July 21, 2010                        /s/ Jan Horbaly
Date                                     Jan Horbaly
                                          Clerk
