       NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.


  United States Court of Appeals
      for the Federal Circuit
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                  ARMANDO DIAZ,
                  Claimant-Appellant

                           v.

   PETER O’ROURKE, ACTING SECRETARY OF
            VETERANS AFFAIRS,
              Respondent-Appellee
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                      2017-1693
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    Appeal from the United States Court of Appeals for
Veterans Claims in No. 15-2710, Judge William S. Green-
berg.
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                     JUDGMENT
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   CHRIS ATTIG, Attig Steel, PLLC, Little Rock, AR, ar-
gued for claimant-appellant.

    AMELIA LISTER-SOBOTKIN, Commercial Litigation
Branch, Civil Division, United States Department of
Justice, Washington, DC, argued for respondent-appellee.
Also represented by CHAD A. READLER, ROBERT E.
KIRSCHMAN, JR., L. MISHA PREHEIM; BRIAN D. GRIFFIN,
JONATHAN KRISCH, SAMANTHA ANN SYVERSON, Office of
General Counsel, United States Department of Veterans
Affairs, Washington, DC.
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THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

ORDERED and ADJUDGED:

   PER CURIAM (PROST, Chief Judge, NEWMAN and
REYNA, Circuit Judges).
           AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.

                      ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT


 June 19, 2018                /s/ Peter R. Marksteiner
     Date                     Peter R. Marksteiner
                              Clerk of Court
