       NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.


  United States Court of Appeals
      for the Federal Circuit
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              YOLANDA F. HICKMAN,
                Claimant-Appellant,

                           v.

 ERIC K. SHINSEKI, Secretary of Veterans Affairs,
              Respondent-Appellee.
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                      2013-7100
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   Appeal from the United States Court of Appeals for
Veterans Claims in No. 11-2769, Judge Robert N. Davis.
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                     JUDGMENT
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    JAMIE MARIE ATWOOD, ABS Legal Advocates, P.A., of
Lawrence, Kansas, argued for claimant-appellant. On the
brief was VIRGINIA A. GIRARD-BRADY.

    L. MISHA PREHEIM, Senior Trial Counsel, Commercial
Litigation Branch, Civil Division, United States Depart-
ment of Justice, of Washington, DC, argued for respond-
ent-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
CHRISTINA L. GREGG, Attorney, United States Department
of Veterans Affairs, of Washington, DC. Of counsel were
LARA EILHARDT and Y. KEN LEE, Attorneys, United States
Veterans Affairs, of Washington, 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


March 6, 2014                 /s/ Daniel E. O’Toole
  Date                        Daniel E. O’Toole
                              Clerk of Court
