       NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.


  United States Court of Appeals
      for the Federal Circuit
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               BILLIE D. MCDONALD,
                 Claimant-Appellant,

                           v.

 ERIC K. SHINSEKI, Secretary of Veterans Affairs,
               Defendant-Appellee.
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                      2013-7068
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   Appeal from the United States Court of Appeals for
Veterans Claims in No. 11-1697, Judge William A. Moor-
man.
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                     JUDGMENT
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   KENNETH M. CARPENTER, Carpenter, Chartered, of
Topeka, Kansas, argued for claimant-appellant.

    JAMES SWEET, Trial Attorney, Civil Division, United
States Department of Justice, of Washington, DC, argued
for defendant-appellee. With him on the brief were
STUART F. DELERY, Assistant Attorney General, JEANNE
E. DAVIDSON, Director, and MARTIN F. HOCKEY, JR., Assis-
tant Director. Of counsel on the brief were MICHAEL J.
TIMINSKI, Deputy Assistant General Counsel, and
AMANDA BLACKMON, Staff Attorney, United States De-
partment of Veterans Affairs, of Washington, DC. Of
counsel was SAVANNAH HUGHES CONNALLY, Attorney,
United States Department of Veterans Affairs, of Wash-
ington, DC.
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THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

ORDERED and ADJUDGED:



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

                      ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT


 January 9, 2014                  /s/ Daniel E. O’Toole
      Date                        Daniel E. O’Toole
                                  Clerk of Court
