       NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.


  United States Court of Appeals
      for the Federal Circuit
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                RICKY A. WILDMAN,
                 Claimant-Appellant,

                           v.

   Eric K. Shinseki, SECRETARY OF VETERANS
                     AFFAIRS,
                 Respondent-Appellee.
               ______________________

                      2012-7058
                ______________________

   Appeal from the United States Court of Appeals for
Veterans Claims in No. 09-3286, Judge Alan G. Lance Sr.
                ______________________

                     JUDGMENT
                ______________________

   KENNETH M. CARPENTER, Carpenter, Chartered, of
Topeka, Kansas, argued for claimant-appellant.

    DANIEL RABINOWITZ, Trial Attorney, Commercial Liti-
gation Branch, Civil Division, United States Department
of Justice, of Washington, DC, argued for respondent-
appellee. With him on the brief were STUART F. DELERY,
Acting Assistant Attorney General, JEANNE E. DAVIDSON,
Director, and STEVEN J. GILLINGHAM, Assistant Director.
Of counsel on the brief were MICHAEL J. TIMINSKI, Deputy
Assistant General Counsel, and MARTIN J. SENDEK, At-
torney, United States Department of Veterans Affairs, of
Washington, DC.
                 ______________________

THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

ORDERED and ADJUDGED:

PER CURIAM (MOORE, BRYSON, and WALLACH, Circuit
Judges).


           AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.


                      ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT



April 9, 2013                /s/ Jan Horbaly
   Date                          Jan Horbaly
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