       NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.


United States Court of Appeals
    for the Federal Circuit
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             LORENZO E. CARDWELL,
                Claimant-Appellant,

                           v.

 ERIC K. SHINSEKI, SECRETARY OF VETERANS
                   AFFAIRS,
              Respondent-Appellee.
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                      2010-7110
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   Appeal from the United States Court of Appeals for
Veterans Claims in Case No. 08-2397, Judge Alan G.
Lance, Sr.
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                     JUDGMENT
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   KENNETH M. CARPENTER, Carpenter, Chartered, of
Topeka, Kansas, argued for claimant-appellant.

    MICHAEL P. GOODMAN, Trial Attorney, Commercial
Litigation Branch, Civil Division, 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 DAVID J. BARRANS, Deputy
Assistant General Counsel, United States Department of
Veterans Affairs, of Washington, DC, and Y. KEN LEE,
Attorney.
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THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

ORDERED and ADJUDGED:

   PER CURIAM (NEWMAN, LOURIE, and MOORE, Circuit
Judges).

           AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.


                      ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT




 August 18, 2011       /s/ Jan Horbaly
    Date                   Jan Horbaly
                              Clerk
