       NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.


  United States Court of Appeals
      for the Federal Circuit
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                JOHN P. DEYOUNG,
                 Claimant-Appellant,

                           v.

 ERIC K. SHINSEKI, Secretary of Veterans Affairs,
              Respondent-Appellee.
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                      2013-7002
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   Appeal from the United States Court of Appeals for
Veterans Claims in No. 10-3903, Judge Lawrence B.
Hagel.
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                     JUDGMENT
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   KENNETH M. CARPENTER, Carpenter, Chartered, of
Topeka, Kansas, argued for claimant-appellant.

    TARA K. HOGAN, Senior Trial Counsel, Commercial
Litigation Branch, Civil Division, United States Depart-
ment of Justice, of Washington, DC, argued for respond-
ent-appellee. With her on the brief were STUART F.
DELERY, Acting Assistant Attorney General, JEANNE E.
DAVIDSON, Director, and MARTIN F. HOCKEY, JR., Assis-
tant Director. Of counsel on the brief were DAVID J.
BARRANS, Deputy Assistant General Counsel, and TRACEY
PARKER WARREN, Attorney, United States Department of
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, MOORE, and
WALLACH, Circuit Judges).
           AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.

                      ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT


October 22, 2013                  /s/ Daniel E. O’Toole
      Date                            Daniel E. O’Toole
                                      Clerk
