       NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.


  United States Court of Appeals
      for the Federal Circuit
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              CATHERINE CORNELL,
                Claimant-Appellant

                           v.

    ROBERT WILKIE, ACTING SECRETARY OF
            VETERANS AFFAIRS,
             Respondent-Appellee
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                      2017-1770
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    Appeal from the United States Court of Appeals for
Veterans Claims in No. 15-3191, Chief Judge Robert N.
Davis, Senior Judge Bruce E. Kasold, Senior Judge Alan
G. Lance, Sr.
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                     JUDGMENT
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   KENNETH M. CARPENTER, Law Offices of Carpenter
Chartered, Topeka, KS, argued for claimant-appellant.

    TARA K. HOGAN, Commercial Litigation Branch, Civil
Division, United States Department of Justice, Washing-
ton, DC, argued for respondent-appellee. Also represent-
ed by CHAD A. READLER, ROBERT E. KIRSCHMAN, JR., L.
MISHA PREHEIM; CHRISTA A. SHRIBER, JONATHAN ELLIOTT
TAYLOR, Office of General Counsel, United States De-
partment 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, HUGHES and STOLL,
Circuit Judges).
           AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.

                      ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT


 April 6, 2018                /s/ Peter R. Marksteiner
    Date                      Peter R. Marksteiner
                              Clerk of Court
