       NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.

  United States Court of Appeals
      for the Federal Circuit
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                 PAUL Y. BECHTEL,
                  Claimant-Appellant,

                           v.

 ERIC K. SHINSEKI, SECRETARY OF VETERANS
                   AFFAIRS,
              Respondent-Appellee.
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                      2012-7060
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   Appeal from the United States Court of Appeals for
Veterans Claims in No. 10-2146, Judge Robert N. Davis.
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                     JUDGMENT
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     KENNETH M. CARPENTER, Carpenter, Chartered, of
Topeka, Kansas, argued for claimant-appellant.

    MICHAEL GOODMAN, 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, MARTIN F. HOCKEY, JR., Assistant Director.
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THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

ORDERED and ADJUDGED:

PER CURIAM (NEWMAN, O’MALLEY, and WALLACH, Circuit
Judges).

           AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.

                      ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT


 February 20, 2013                 /s/ Jan Horbaly
      Date                        Jan Horbaly
                                  Clerk
