       NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.


  United States Court of Appeals
      for the Federal Circuit
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                   CARL V. LAMB,
                  Claimant-Appellant,

                           v.

              ROBERT A. MCDONALD,
            Secretary of Veterans Affairs,
                 Respondent-Appellee.
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                      2014-7060
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   Appeal from the United States Court of Appeals for
Veterans Claims in No. 12-1501, Judge Alan G. Lance Sr.
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                     JUDGMENT
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   KENNETH M. CARPENTER, Carpenter, Chartered, of
Topeka, Kansas, 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 Y. KEN LEE, Deputy Assistant
General Counsel, and MEGHAN D. ALPHONSO, Staff Attor-
ney, 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 (PROST, Chief Judge, O’MALLEY and
TARANTO, Circuit Judges).
           AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.

                      ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT


 January 9, 2015                  /s/ Daniel E. O’Toole
      Date                        Daniel E. O’Toole
                                  Clerk of Court
