       NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.


United States Court of Appeals
    for the Federal Circuit
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                 DENISE D. SOLES,
                 Claimant-Appellant,

                           v.

 ERIC K. SHINSEKI, SECRETARY OF VETERANS
                   AFFAIRS,
              Respondent-Appellee.
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                      2011-7124
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   Appeal from the United States Court of Appeals for
Veterans Claims in case no. 09-0471, Judge Alan G.
Lance, Sr.
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                     JUDGMENT
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    SANDRA E. BOOTH, of Columbus, Ohio, argued for
claimant-appellant.

    ELIZABETH M. HOSFORD, Senior Trial Attorney,
Commercial Litigation Branch, Civil Division, United
States Department of Justice, of Washington, DC, argued
for the respondent-appellee. With her on the brief were
TONY WEST, Assistant Attorney General, JEANNE E.
DAVIDSON, Director, and BRIAN SIMKIN, Assistant
Director. Of counsel on the brief were MICHAEL J.
TIMINSKI, Deputy Assistant General Counsel, and Y. KEN
LEE, 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 (PROST, REYNA, and WALLACH, Circuit
Judges).

           AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.

                      ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT



 March 12, 2012              /s/ Jan Horbaly
    Date                        Jan Horbaly
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