       NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.


  United States Court of Appeals
      for the Federal Circuit
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                 SEAN M. GRIFFIN,
                 Claimant-Appellant,

                           v.

 ERIC K. SHINSEKI, Secretary of Veterans Affairs,
              Respondent-Appellee.
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                      2013-7041
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   Appeal from the United States Court of Appeals for
Veterans Claims in No. 11-2877, Chief Judge Bruce E.
Kasold.
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                     JUDGMENT
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   OMAR A. KHAN, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and
Dorr, LLP, of New York, New York, argued for claimant-
appellant. With him on the brief were LAUREN CLARK and
JACOB WARREN.

    DOMENIQUE GRACE KIRCHNER, Trial Attorney, Com-
mercial 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, MARTIN F. HOCKEY, JR., Assistant
Director, and SHARI A. ROSE, Trial Attorney. Of counsel
on the brief were MICHAEL J. TIMINSKI, Deputy Assistant
General Counsel, and AMANDA BLACKMON, Staff 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 (DYK, O’MALLEY, and CHEN, Circuit Judges).
           AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.

                      ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT


December 5, 2013                  /s/ Daniel E. O’Toole
     Date                         Daniel E. O’Toole
                                  Clerk of Court
