       NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.


United States Court of Appeals
    for the Federal Circuit
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                MILDRED E. WHITE,
                 Claimant-Appellant,

                           v.

 ERIC K. SHINSEKI, SECRETARY OF VETERANS
                   AFFAIRS,
              Respondent-Appellee.
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                      2011-7194
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   Appeal from the United States Court of Appeals for
Veterans Claims in Case No. 09-2299, 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.

    TARA K. HOGAN, Trial Attorney, Commercial
Litigation Branch, Civil Division, United States
Department of Justice, of Washington, DC, argued for
respondent-appellee. With her on the brief were STUART
F. DELERY, Acting Assistant Attorney General, JEANNE E.
DAVIDSON, Director, and MARTIN F. HOCKEY, JR.,
Assistant Director. Of counsel on the brief were MICHAEL
J. TIMINSKI, Deputy Assistant General Counsel, and
MARTIN J. SENDEK, Attorney.
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THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

ORDERED and ADJUDGED:

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

           AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.


                      ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT


October 10, 2012           /s/ Jan Horbaly
   Date                       Jan Horbaly
                                  Clerk
