       NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.


United States Court of Appeals
    for the Federal Circuit
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                ALAN J. AIRINGTON,
                 Claimant-Appellant,

                           v.

 ERIC K. SHINSEKI, SECRETARY OF VETERANS
                   AFFAIRS,
              Respondent-Appellee.
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                      2011-7188
                ______________________

    Appeal from the United States Court of Appeals for
Veterans Claims in Case No. 10-1246, Chief Judge Bruce
E. Kasold.
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                     JUDGMENT
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   THOMAS R. BENDER, Chisholm Chisholm & Kilpatrick,
LLP, of Providence, Rhode Island, argued for claimant-
appellant. On the brief was ZACHARY M. STOLZ.

    JAMES SWEET, Trial Attorney, United States
Department of Justice, of Washington, DC, argued for
respondent-appellee. With him 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 MICHAEL J. TIMINSKI, Deputy
Assistant General Counsel, and TRACEY P. WARREN, Staff
Attorney, United States Department of Veterans Affairs,
of Washington, DC.
                 ______________________

THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

ORDERED and ADJUDGED:

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

           AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.


                      ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT



 June 19, 2012               /s/ Jan Horbaly
    Date                        Jan Horbaly
                                   Clerk
