       NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.


United States Court of Appeals
    for the Federal Circuit
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                LARRY C. JACKSON,
                 Claimant-Appellant,

                           v.

 ERIC K. SHINSEKI, SECRETARY OF VETERANS
                   AFFAIRS,
              Respondent-Appellee.
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                      2011-7186
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   Appeal from the United States Court of Appeals for
Veterans Claims in Case No. 09-3538, Judge Bruce E.
Kasold.
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                     JUDGMENT
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   KENNETH M. CARPENTER, Carpenter, Chartered, of
Topeka, Kansas, argued for claimant-appellant.

    SCOTT D. AUSTIN, Assistant Director, Commercial
Litigation Branch, Civil Division, United States
Department of Justice, of Washington, DC, argued for
respondent-appellee.    On the brief were STUART F.
DELERY, Acting Assistant Attorney General, JEANNE E.
DAVIDSON, Director, BRIAN M. SIMKIN, Assistant Director,
and ELIZABETH M. HOSFORD, Senior Trial Counsel. Of
counsel on the brief were MICHAEL J. TIMINSKI, Deputy
Assistant General Counsel, and AMANDA R. BLACKMON,
Attorney, United States Department of Veteran Affairs, of
Washington, DC.
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THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

ORDERED and ADJUDGED:

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

           AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.


                      ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT



 August 20, 2012             /s/ Jan Horbaly
    Date                        Jan Horbaly
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