       NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.


 United States Court of Appeals
     for the Federal Circuit
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                TOMMY D. PARRISH,
                 Claimant-Appellant,

                           v.

 ERIC K. SHINSEKI, Secretary of Veterans Affairs,
              Respondent-Appellee.
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                      2010-7010
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   Appeal from the United States Court of Appeals for
Veterans Claims in No. 06-2999, Judge Mary J. Schoelen.
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                     JUDGMENT
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   SANDRA E. BOOTH, Attorney at Law, of Columbus,
Ohio, argued for claimant-appellant.

    CLAUDIA BURKE, Senior 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 TONY
WEST, Assistant Attorney General, JEANNE E. DAVIDSON,
Director, and MARTIN F. HOCKEY, JR., Assistant Director.
Of counsel on the brief were DAVID J. BARRANS, Deputy
Assistant General Counsel, and TRACEY P. WARREN,
Attorney, Office of the General Counsel, 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 (LOURIE, BRYSON, and DYK, Circuit
Judges).


          AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.

                    ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT


_October 6, 2010       /s/ Jan Horbaly
   Date                 Jan Horbaly
                            Clerk
