       NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.


  United States Court of Appeals
      for the Federal Circuit
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                 RICHARD B. HIME,
                  Claimant-Appellant

                           v.

 DAVID J. SHULKIN, SECRETARY OF VETERANS
                   AFFAIRS,
              Respondent-Appellee
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                      2016-2123
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   Appeal from the United States Court of Appeals for
Veterans Claims in No. 14-3215, Judge Alan G. Lance Sr.,
Judge Coral Wong Pietsch, Judge Margaret C. Bartley.
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                     JUDGMENT
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    SANDRA WALDORF WISCHOW, Goodman Allen Donnelly
PLLC, Glen Allen, VA, argued for claimant-appellant.
Also represented by ERIN ELIZABETH RALSTON.

    ADAM E. LYONS, Commercial Litigation Branch, Civil
Division, United States Department of Justice, Washing-
ton, DC, argued for respondent-appellee. Also represented
by BENJAMIN C. MIZER, ROBERT E. KIRSCHMAN, JR.,
MARTIN F. HOCKEY, JR., L. MISHA PREHEIM; AMANDA
BLACKMON, Y. KEN LEE, Office of General Counsel, De-
partment of Veterans Affairs, Washington, DC.
                ______________________

THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

ORDERED and ADJUDGED:

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

                      ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT


 March 20, 2017               /s/ Peter R. Marksteiner
      Date                    Peter R. Marksteiner
                              Clerk of Court
